Seeing Xie Rulan's figure walking further and further away, Mrs. Xu felt dizzy for a while. She wanted to speak, but her lips trembled and she couldn't say even a single word.
After a long time, she finally regained her composure, waved her hands feebly and said, "You two should go down too, I want to be alone here for a while."
Seeing this, Taohong said worriedly, "But, Mrs. Xu—"
"I'll keep talking!"
Mrs. Xu felt so tight in her chest that she couldn't even speak out loud.
Seeing her firm attitude, Liu Lu tugged on Tao Hong's clothes, shook her head gently, and pulled her away.
After they were far away, Liu Lucai said, "She is just a foreign lady. Looking at the current situation, I guess this marriage will not come true. From now on, we will never have contact with each other. Why are you so interested in her?"
Hearing this, Taohong disagreed and said, "No matter what her identity is, she is still a guest of our house. The master has asked us to take care of the guest, so we must do our best to take care of her!"
"Tch, then you just stay here and I'll go get some work first." Liu Lu curled her lips, turned around and walked towards the kitchen. After being busy for most of the day, she was also hungry. In the morning, the third lady wanted her to be reliable in her work, so she specially gave her a snack and left it in the kitchen.
Seeing Liu Lu leaving immediately, Tao Hong shook her head helplessly and continued to stand on the corridor not far from the pavilion, waiting for Mrs. Xu to come back.
Mrs. Xu sat in the pavilion for a while, then slowly got up and walked along the gravel path beside it. Xie Rulan's words just now had a huge impact on her, and she tried her best to suppress the anger in her heart. This time she came to propose marriage, something like this happened that she had never expected. But things have come to this point. It is absolutely impossible for her to accept Xie Rulan as her daughter-in-law!
As she walked along, she was thinking about how to explain it later, but she didn't pay attention to a raised stone under her feet.
"ah-"
By the time Mrs. Xu was tripped by a stone, it was already too late. She exclaimed and tripped to the ground. The pain in her ankle made her unable to hold back her voice, but she gritted her teeth remembering that she was in someone else's home.
At this moment, a female voice was heard, "Are you okay?"
A pair of feet appeared in front of her, wearing golden lotus shoes with a few flowers embroidered on them. The shoes looked soft and clean.
A pair of hands stretched out, carefully helped her up, and carefully flicked the dust off her, and then asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
The woman's voice is like mountain spring water, tinkling, dong dong, and is pleasant to hear. She only wore a light blue flowered skirt, no makeup on her face, and no other decoration except for the jade hairpin on her head that fixed her hair. This woman has a beautiful temperament, an oval-like face, delicate and smooth, and a pair of eyes as gentle as water, which makes people feel good about her.
"Thank you, girl. Who are you?" Mrs. Xu smiled gratefully and looked at the woman in front of her carefully, but she couldn't guess her identity. This woman's clothes were too ordinary. The maids Mrs. Xu had seen in the past few days were even better dressed than this woman, but her overall temperament was by no means comparable to the maids.
"Madam, you don't have to be polite. I am Xie Ruyun, the eldest daughter of the Xie family. May I ask, madam?" Xie Ruyun doesn't go out much on weekdays, but she doesn't know anything about the guests in the third room.
Hearing this, Mrs. Xu couldn't help but look at her a few more times. She is also the daughter of the Xie family. The girl in front of her is just a concubine, but her words and deeds are countless times more powerful than Xie Rulan's!
"I'm a foreigner. It's normal that Miss Xie doesn't know me." Mrs. Xu smiled slightly and followed Xie Ruyun's help to sit down in the corridor aside.
Xie Ruyun smiled shyly and said, "I see. I haven't been out for a long time, and I didn't know that there was a distinguished guest at home. It's really rude."
Taohong heard Mrs. Xu's vague exclamation and ran over quickly, but saw Xie Ruyun supporting Mrs. Xu. She immediately came over and saluted, "Greetings to the eldest lady, why are you here?"
After saying that, she asked with concern, "Mrs. Xu, are you okay?"
"Mrs. Xu? Are you the mistress of the third sister's fiancé's house?" Although Xie Ruyun didn't go out often, she didn't know anything, so she immediately spoke in surprise.
Taohong supported Mrs. Xu and said with a smile, "That's right. Where are you going, Miss?"
"Oh, it was the fourth sister who said she wanted to learn embroidery and asked me to teach her. Unexpectedly, as soon as I got here, I saw this lady falling." It’s not a big deal to go. Madam Xu seems to have sprained her ankle. I’ll send this madam back first. You can quickly go and call the doctor. It’s rude of us that our distinguished guest was injured in our house.”
She handled things in an orderly manner, and Taohong felt it was appropriate. She thanked Xie Ruyun immediately and went to see the doctor. Xie Ruyun supported Mrs. Xu and walked slowly towards the guest room.
Mrs. Xu saw her dignified behavior and measured advances and retreats, and secretly looked at her appearance, feeling that the woman in front of her was more amiable.
After entering the room, Xie Ruyun felt suspicious when she saw that there was no one waiting in the room, but she didn't say much. She just poured tea for Mrs. Xu herself and told some jokes with her.
After Taohong invited the doctor for diagnosis and treatment, Xie Ruyun said goodbye with a smile.
Mrs. Xu intended to stay, but Xie Ruyun went ahead on the pretext that her sister had something to entrust her to.
Unexpectedly, Xie Ruyun almost ran into a wall as soon as she went out.
She hurriedly took two steps back and looked up, only to see a man with an honest and honest face standing in front of her.
"Sorry, I'm rude." Xie Ruyun blushed a little because of the man's direct gaze. She saluted casually and ran out of the door as if running away.
Xu Wenyuan was still in a daze until Xie Ruyun's back disappeared for a long time.
He usually concentrates on reading books about sages and has never paid much attention to beauties. But when the woman bumped into him just now, the faint fragrance hit him, and it instantly reminded him of a poem: My fair lady, a gentleman is so bold.
When Xie Ruyun arrived at Tingfeng Yuan, one of Xie Ruzhuo's mandarin ducks had been dismantled for the fourth time.
As soon as he saw Xie Ruyun, Xie Ruzhuo immediately stood up and said with a smile, "If eldest sister doesn't come again, I will have to throw another ball of thread."
The cool breeze outside hit her face, but there was still a slight blush on her ears. Hearing Xie Ruzhuo's words, she looked over and saw half a crooked mandarin duck embroidered on the silk frame.
Seeing this, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Fourth sister, you have specialization in this art, so it shows that you are not suitable for such a job."
Ever since Xie Ruzhuo embroidered a mandarin duck on a whim a few days ago, but was regarded as a wild duck by Mrs. Qiao, Xie Ruzhuo became furious and invited Xie Ruyun to come and teach her how to embroider every day.
Although Xie Ruyun was extremely attentive these days, Xie Ruzhuo's embroidery work was getting worse day by day.
Hearing this, Xie Ruzhuo suddenly became discouraged and said, "Sister, if you hit me like this, I'm afraid I'll never learn." After saying that, she simply put the embroidery frame aside and said with a smile, "Well, since I'm learning No, then let them laugh."
Seeing her acting like a daughter, Xie Ruyun suppressed a smile and said, "Yes, yes, when it comes to music, chess, calligraphy and painting, none of them can compare to you, my sister."
"That's true." Xie Ruzhuo said with a complacent look, "I have no chance of embroidery, but our family has no shortage of embroiderers, so I won't learn to show off my shame. It's okay if I don't learn."
As soon as she said this, Qianbi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's best this way. The slave doesn't have to say good things to the wild duck every day against his will. If this continues, I'm afraid I'll meet the mandarin duck in the future. , I don’t even recognize it.”
Xie Ruzhuo reached out and tapped her forehead with his finger, and said with a smile, "You are such a bitch and you are so stubborn. If you mess with me again, you will be punished by not being allowed to eat meat for three days!"
Xie Ruyun looked at the quarrel between the master and the servants in the house with envy, and said sincerely, "The people in Fourth Sister's house are actually very sharp-tongued, much better than those stuffy gourds in my house."
"If sister wants it, take them away quickly. They are like some monkeys every day, causing trouble for me." Xie Ruzhuo glanced at her with a smile and said, "But sister has a quiet temper. The people in your yard just want to I don’t even dare to make trouble.”
Xie Ruyun's biological mother died young. Over the years, she has developed a calm and quiet temperament under her aunt's mother's knees. I don't know whether it's good or bad.
She remembered that the fate of this concubine in her previous life was not very good. I just don’t know if her destiny will change in this life.
Xie Ruyun didn't know what she was thinking at the moment, she just smiled and said, "I'm used to being quiet. I'm afraid they might feel bored following me."
"Who dares to say something bad about a big sister with such a temper? Well, that's right. Why did this big sister come so late today?" Xie Ruzhuo said, suddenly remembering that she came nearly an hour later than usual, and casually said asked.
Hearing this, Xie Ruyun was stunned for a moment, then said, "To be honest, I met Mrs. Xu's family when I was passing by the garden just now."
With that said, Xie Ruyun told the story exactly, and finally said, "Sister, I just want to tell you something. I feel that the third aunt is not very satisfied with this marriage."
Seeing the confusion on her face, Xie Ruzhuo smiled and said, "In my opinion, the possibility of this marriage happening is probably low."
"Why did Fourth Sister say this?" Xie Ruyun looked at her in surprise and asked.
Xie Ruzhuo stood up, poured a cup of tea, handed it to Xie Ruyun, and then asked with a smile, "When you were taking care of Mrs. Xu there just now, did Third Aunt send someone to ask?"
"No, maybe she doesn't know yet."
"Sister." Xie Ruzhuo called out and said, "Do you think it's possible? My future in-laws sprained their feet in my own home, but I didn't even know about it?"
Hearing her question, Xie Ruyun just sighed and said, "I'm just confused, that's all. After all, it's someone else's business, so we don't need to take it too seriously. After all, this guest is not ours to entertain."
Seeing her indifferent expression, Xie Ruzhuo suddenly had an idea in his mind, so he asked, "Yes, has the eldest sister seen the young master of the Xu family?"
As if he didn't expect that she would ask about this matter, Xie Ruyun was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I saw him, and he seems to be a loyal person." However, when she thought of the way the man looked at her, her cheeks turned red.
Xie Ruzhuo naturally did not miss her change. After thinking about it in his mind, he said, "That's good."
If her calculations were correct, there is no telling that Mrs. Xu would have other ideas after this comparison.
As she expected, for three days in a row, Mrs. Xu made various excuses to ask her maid to invite Xie Ruyun to chat with her. However, in order to avoid suspicion, Xu Wenyuan was sent away first before letting her come.
Liu Lu is from the Lu family, so she naturally knows everything about this news.