"What's going on?" Su Yan's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately came up with many possibilities. In fact, the one that occupied her mind the most was that Xia Mochu was about to give up!
Zhong Ning twitched her face, with tears hanging on her lower eyelashes: "Xia Mochu... Xia Mochu is going to marry his aunt's cousin."
Su Yan's face changed in an instant: "Say it well, explain the cause and effect to me." Su Yan could hear that Zhong Ning's words were a little bit angry, but since Zhong Ning said that, it also meant This thing is indeed true.
In any case, if Xia Mochu really dared to treat Zhong Ning like this, if she, Su Yan, didn't grab his head and kick him like a ball, then her surname would not be Su!
Zhong Ning pursed her mouth, but the teardrops hanging on her eyelashes still couldn't help falling down.
"His third aunt's family has a cousin. Old General Xia wanted him to marry her. Xia Mochu disagreed, so Old General Xia sent someone to lock him up. His aunts were all looking at him in turn for almost three days. Yes. I didn't know about this at first, but I only found out about the message that the servant next to Xia Mochu sneaked out to deliver to me today."
After hearing what Zhong Ning said, Su Yan felt a little relieved, as long as that kid Xia Mochu didn't change his mind. But the key to this matter lies in this: "Does the Xia family know about you and Xia Mochu?"
Zhong Ning was slightly stunned, then lowered her head and said, "Although I didn't say it clearly, the members of the Xia family should know about it. Xia Mochu took me to Xia's house to play a few times, and I even met old General Xia and her aunt. , Old General Xia treated me very well, and even gave me a bracelet that only their daughter-in-law can wear, so... Xia Mochu and I always thought that Old General Xia agreed."
Speaking of this, Zhong Ning paused for a moment, looked up at Su Yan, and then said weepingly: "But I went to Xia's house just now, and an aunt Xia Mochu said... that if I want to enter the door of Xia's house, unless Be a little one. His aunt still scolded me, saying that I have a mother but not a mother, and that the toad wants to eat swan meat, and doesn't care about my status."
After hearing Zhong Ning's words, Su Yan's body trembled in anger.
In Su Yan's eyes, Zhong Ning is her own sister, and now that Zhong Ning is being looked down upon by members of the Xia family, it makes Su Yan even more angry than directly bullying her.
If members of the Xia family disagreed with their marriage, they could object when they first found out about the relationship between them. Why do you want to default at the beginning, and now make such a fuss? Do you think that Zhong Ning, a Jianghu woman, has no one to bully behind her? You can let anyone mess with you at will
Half an hour later, in front of General Xia's mansion.
Su Yan was wearing a red koi skirt, with a hundred treasure tassels hanging on her chest, and an eight-tailed phoenix hairpin representing the status of a princess on her head.
The plaque of Old General Xia's Mansion was raised by the late Emperor himself, and the threshold is much higher than ordinary houses, standing at the door has a sense of awe.
Su Yan raised her head and glanced at the pure gold plaque, then dragged Zhong Ning up the steps with a cold face.
Cai Xia immediately reported the door number of Prince Jing's Mansion to the concierge, but the concierge didn't even dare to ask, so he ordered someone to open the gate and bowed to welcome Su Yan in: "Princess, please."
Su Yan stepped over the threshold, Zhong Ning wiped away her tears, and quietly tugged on Su Yan's sleeve: "Senior Sister, what did you bring me here for?"
"People from the Xia family bullied you just now, and your senior sister should help you bully me back." Su Yan stood at the door and took out a handkerchief to wipe the tears on Zhong Ning's face: "Where is the usual ability? Hold back for me."
Looking at Zhong Ning's red eyes, Su Yan felt distressed: "No matter what I do for a while, you just watch by me and cooperate, you know?"
Zhong Ning nodded, her head was in a mess and she didn't know what to say. After sobbing twice, with a muffled hum, Zhong Ning pouted and followed Su Yan step by step into the door of Xia's house.
The servants led Su Yan to the flower hall, and served tea for Su Yan. Su Yan led Zhong Ning and waited for a stick of incense in the flower hall, but no one came to entertain her.
"Senior sister...how about we go back." Zhong Ning quietly tugged on Su Yan's sleeve, she felt that it was fine if she was being ridiculed, but she didn't want her senior sister to be troubled by her. No one came to entertain him for such a long time, the people from the Xia family obviously did it on purpose.
Su Yan patted Zhong Ning's hand, pulled her to sit beside her, and took a sip of her teacup calmly.
However, Su Yan was a little surprised. Treating guests without grace was not like the usual practice of General Xia.
After another cup of tea, only two luxuriously dressed women came late. Both of them seemed to be in their forties. Plump, the woman behind her was a little thin, but her slender eyes were not easy to mess with.
The leading woman first glanced at Zhong Ning after entering the room, and then entered the room with a smile and gave Su Yanfu a salute: "I don't know if Princess Jin is here, so I am far away to welcome you."
Seeing Zhong Ning, Mrs. Liang probably knew why Su Yan came here. She had inquired before and knew that Princess Jin had something to do with Miss Zhong.
Su Yan raised her eyes to look at the person who came, and then lowered her eyes lightly, without any reaction.
The woman pursed her lower lip in embarrassment, and asked again: "I don't know why the princess is here?"
Putting on airs, Su Yan finally reacted a bit. She raised her eyes and stared at the woman directly, and said, "Where is Old General Xia? This princess is looking for Old General Xia. When will the head of the Xia family become a Mrs. Liang?"
The members of the Xia family were rude to her first, and Su Yan was not polite at all when speaking.
She knew that the behavior of these officials and ladies in the capital was nothing more than that they were all soft-spoken and fearful of hard work. If Su Yan behaved so easily to be bullied, Mrs. Liang would have to treat her like a persimmon.
Su Yan sent someone to check, Xia Mochu had six aunts, four of them married in the capital, this Mrs. Liang was his second aunt, and the best married aunt among them, the wife of Youcheng, Mrs. Yipin. The one behind Mrs. Liang is Xia Mochu's third aunt, who married a Jinshi named Yang from a poor background.
The Jinshi surnamed Yang himself is not considered to have any talent, but later, with the help of the Xia family, he achieved the position of deputy envoy of the Third Rank Metropolitan Procuratorate. And this time, it was Mrs. Yang's daughter who was going to discuss marriage with Xia Mochu.
Mrs. Liang's eyes flickered, and she took a fixed look at Su Yan: "My father is away on a long journey, what is the princess doing this time?"
Old General Xia isn't in the mansion
After hearing Mrs. Liang's words, Su Yan felt somewhat clearer. What she said, Old General Xia probably wouldn't do such a thing, because the tiger is not at home, and the monkey is called the king. The person from Xia Mochu... It seems hard to say.
A smile finally appeared on Su Yan's face, she was indifferent and generous, but her words were quite sharp: "It's nothing, I just heard that my sister came to the house just now, and was taunted by a lady." Fan, so this princess also came to see who is so overbearing."
After finishing speaking, Su Yan glanced at Zhong Ning who was standing behind her, and gave her a look.
There were still tears on Zhong Ning's face, she immediately pointed at Madam Yang knowingly and said, "Senior Sister, she was the one who saw me just now, and she still scolded me."
Madam Yang's complexion changed when she heard this, she stepped forward and wanted to talk to Su Yan. Mrs. Liang stretched out her arms to stop Mrs. Yang, she walked to the main seat and sat down, then she asked Su Yan with a smile: "Madam, do you know what the girl said at the door just now?"
Su Yan knew that Mrs. Liang was not easy to deal with, and sitting there now was also showing her status in the Xia family.
It's just... Su Yan really didn't take Mrs. Liang seriously.
Su Yan smiled calmly, glanced at Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Yang with her peach eyes, and parted her lips lightly, and said something that would piss her off: "I don't want to know."