Zou Yiang said with an unsightly expression: "Recognize your identity. You are just a female student from the Women's School. Are you qualified to point fingers at me, the young master of the Zou family?"
"Aren't you going to go?" Xi Fuwei smiled when he heard this, his eyes were calm, but his hand holding the fly whisk tightened.
Zou Yiang confronted her for a moment, his face getting more and more ugly. Just when Fu Chuoxian wanted to say that he would just leave and let them talk here, he suddenly turned away and gave in: "Seeing that you were so focused on saving the people." For my sake... I’ll give you face this time!”
Xi Fuwei glanced at him sideways and said to her heart, I hope you understand, otherwise I will drag you away by your collar!
When the two of them reached a secluded place, Zou Yiang immediately crossed his arms and said expressionlessly: "What do you want to say to me?"
Glancing at the letter she was still holding in her hand, she sneered, "Do you want to ask Mr. Ouyang if he is serious about you? I don't dare to guarantee this for you! After all, I'm not a roundworm in his stomach!"
"But he had been painting this peach blossom for a long time, and he thought the cinnabar in the middle was last year's and the color was not bright enough, so he sent the boy out to buy a new one."
"So I should have some thoughts about you!"
"Otherwise, why go to all this trouble?"
Xi Fuwei also had an expressionless face. After he finished speaking, she said, "How long have Mr. Ouyang been teaching you? He is so... cynical. Doesn't Madam, the Master and the Old Madam have any objections? Are you not afraid that your homework will be wasted like this?"
"Why are you asking these questions?" Zou Yiang was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, then became frivolous and said, "Don't you like Mr. Ouyang? But you like me? You're just worried that I won't be able to pass the imperial examination in the future because I don't pay attention to my studies. Yes, there’s no way I can give you the same splendor as being a Jinshi’s wife?”
"If you continue to be so arrogant, I will think that you actually love me, so Mr. Ouyang sent me this to give me this..." Xi Fuwei shook the letter in his hand and said lightly, "I feel uncomfortable, so I did it on purpose. Speak ill of me."
When Zou Yiang heard this, he almost jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "I admire you?! Who do you think you are?!"
"I'm not anyone, I'm just like Sister Fu, a female teacher from your girls' school." Xi Fuwei said lightly, but his expression suddenly changed: "You know..."
Thinking something was wrong, he quickly stopped and looked around like a thief before saying angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about... Do you want to stir up trouble?!"
Xi Fuwei didn't argue with him and said nonchalantly: "If you think it's nonsense, then it's just nonsense."
"..." Zou Yiang didn't know what to say at this moment. After a moment of silence, he said, "What do you want?"
"I don't want to do anything." Xi Fuwei stuffed the letter back into his hand, "If you want to come to the women's school in the future, you can come directly. Anyway, the entire Zou Mansion belongs to your family, and you are the only male heir of the Zou Mansion. It's such a small thing, even if we people complain a little, who can drive you away? Stop using me as a cover, okay? Just treat me as a favor, because I jumped into the lake for you in the cold weather! "
Zou Yiang's face was bruised and white. He held the letter and muttered for a while: "If you refuse to accept it, I won't be able to explain it to you sir when I get back!"
"That's your business." Xi Fuwei said coldly, "Who told you to agree to him in the first place?"
"... He is an unmarried person, not much older than you, and his appearance is not bad." Zou Yiang asked without confidence, "You really don't regret it?"
Xi Fuwei turned around and left without saying a word. She left in such a clean and tidy manner that Zou Yiang stayed there for a while, cursed a few times, and then left angrily.
"Sister Shen?" Xi Fuwei returned to the back hall. Fu Chuoxian was drinking tea uneasily. When he saw her coming in, he hurriedly threw down the tea bowl and went up to her. He asked in a low voice, "You and Mr. Zou..."
"I beat him hard and told him not to make such jokes in the future." Xi Fuwei said, "Sister Fu, don't worry, what he did is tantamount to giving us a handle. After all, Madam has always been fair, how could she tolerate him teasing us like this? ?”
Seeing Fu Chuoxian's surprised look, he said, "How could it be such a coincidence that my sister just made fun of Mr. Ouyang and sent him a letter from Mr. Ouyang? He made the letter himself, and there was no white paper in it." Zhang, he just wants to make us happy! He is really brave, even the gentleman who taught him the sages' books dared to do this! If Mr. Ouyang finds out, I'm afraid I won't slap him."
"After all, he is the only male heir of the Zou family. I'm afraid Mr. Ouyang can't discipline him too harshly. Otherwise, why would he always run towards us?" Fu Chuoxian was hesitant when he heard this, but he still went along and said, "Just now It’s also my fault, I didn’t go out to take a look before I spoke, and I almost hurt you!”
Xi Fuwei said: "Originally, it is normal for us to make some jokes and speak a little out of line. Mr. Zou's behavior is still not a gentleman. You should be a good man. What can't you learn? Be like others and listen to others!"
The two of them scolded Zou Yiang for a while and then revealed the matter.
After a while, when Fu Chuoxian went to the front to teach Zou Qiongruo and others the piano skills, Zou Yiang had already left, which made her somewhat relieved.
... At night, Xi Fuwei was awakened from her sleep by the movement outside the window lattice.
She listened with bated breath for a while. Someone was throwing pebbles at her window.
In Zou Mansion, no one knows who the person who did this is!
Xi Fuwei took a deep breath, suppressed her irritable mood, decided to ignore it, and continued to sleep!
But the person who threw the stones was very perseverant and showed no signs of getting discouraged.
The terrible thing is that if the stones are thrown rhythmically, they can be ignored after a while after getting used to it. But it has no rules, now and then, and it's outrageous to do whatever you want!
Xi Fuwei tossed and turned in the tent for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. After thinking about it, she could only get up and put on her clothes. She combed a double-snail bun with black grass and tiptoed downstairs.
Downstairs, there is a row of angry wind lanterns hanging on the corridor outside, so some light comes in through the hall.
Taking advantage of this little light, she found the whisk she had taken during the day, deliberately picked a window in the opposite direction from where she threw the stones, and quietly turned out.
After going around in a circle to where the stone thrower was hiding, he took a closer look and suddenly laughed out loud: Zou Yiang threw the stone himself!
Looking around again, this kid even slipped over alone!
Xi Fuwei gritted her teeth, showed a silent and sinister smile, walked over without hesitation, and cut the back of Zou Yiang's neck with a hand knife!
Finally, he was dragged away like a sack.
After a while, in the cave in a secluded part of the garden, Zou Yiang groaned and opened his eyes blankly. He saw the condescending Xi Fuwei looking at him coldly. He reacted, quickly got up and said angrily: "Why are you fighting?" Dizzy me?!"
"Why did you stay awake in the middle of the night and come to Fenzhi Tower to disturb me?" Xi Fuwei asked back unceremoniously, "Do you understand whether men and women can kiss each other? You are already twelve years old, and you are sneaking in in the middle of the night. Fenzhilou, a female family member, you don’t want a reputation for yourself, and we, Fenzhilou, need to be famous all the way up and down! For what you did, what’s the point of knocking you unconscious and dragging you here? I should press you to see the madam, Let Madam teach you the rules!"
Zou Yiang hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I went there quietly by myself, not even taking the servant with me, and no one knew! And the other people in Fenzhilou were not alerted. Isn't it okay if you don't tell anyone?"
"What you said is so easy!" Xi Fuwei sneered, "Do you think all the nurses hired by your family are blind or useless? In the middle of the night, you don't even know where you, the only son of the Zou family, have gone. You guys Will my family continue to use money to support them? Do you think your family is taken advantage of!?"
"What about you?" Zou Yiang was dissatisfied and retorted, "You are a delicate and weak woman, but didn't you bring me to the garden from Fenzhi Tower? I didn't see them jumping out to trouble you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xi Fuwei kicking a stone the size of an adult's fist on the ground and crushing it in front of him!
"..." Zou Yiang swallowed and looked at her tremblingly, "You... you..."
I said "you" twice, but in the end I didn't dare to say what I really meant, so I forcefully changed the subject, "You're already out anyway, why don't you have a few drinks with me?"
Xi Fuwei looked at him and smiled: "Say it again?!"
"I didn't mean to let you accompany me drinking!" Zou Yiang looked at the remains of the poor stone and hurriedly explained, "I just feel uncomfortable in my heart, and there is no one else to talk to, so I want to talk to you!"
However, Xi Fuwei had no interest in being an intimate for Mr. Zou, and refused without thinking: "You feel uncomfortable, but I don't feel uncomfortable! It's late at night, and I just want to go back to sleep! Who wants to listen to you?" Are you going to find a place where no one can speak to you and just say it yourself?!"
"..." Zou Yiang almost burst into tears when he heard this, "Why are you so ruthless and unjust?"
Xi Fuwei was too lazy to argue with him and nodded happily: "I am ruthless and unjust!"
Zou Yiang: "..."
He calmed down and decided to change his approach, "I'll give you ten taels of silver!"
Seeing Xi Fuwei turn around and leave, she didn't miss her at all. She thought to herself that this person had been a eldest lady after all. Even if she was down and out, with her eyesight, ten taels of silver would really look down on her.
So he increased the price, "I'll give you fifty taels of silver!"
This was his monthly income for the past six months. If it weren't for Mrs. Zhuang, a grandmother who doted on her grandson without any bottom line, he would never have been able to save such a sum of money.
Even if Xi Fuwei was the eldest lady before, she should be tempted, right
Unexpectedly, when I looked up, I saw that she had almost disappeared!
"I know what my father is going to do next. You can ask your clan brother to make preparations and get a share of the pie!" Zou Yiang shouted in desperation, "It's better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish... Maybe you can follow me My clan brother already has the money to get married? Are you still not tempted?!"
More than just tempted
When Xi Fuwei heard this, she rushed back and looked at him with piercing eyes: "What is your father going to do next? What is he going to do?!"