King Yin opened the curtain and looked in Qiao Wei's direction. At this time, the carriage had already staggered away from Qiao Wei, and he only saw a shabby back.
"What's the matter, my lord?" Eunuch Liu asked carefully, seeing his strange expression.
He put down the curtain: "It's nothing, I admitted the wrong person."
Even though she was expelled from the house, Qiao's family gave her a large amount of settling-in allowances, so she couldn't be so downcast. I must have heard it wrong.
Qiao Wei checked the child up and down, and found that there was nothing serious except for some bruises on the palm, but the child was so delicate that tears burst out of pain, thinking that her son's knees were swollen like steamed buns, and he was still jumping around on the ground .
"Okay, little man, don't cry!"
The little boy was quite obedient, he sniffed, and really stopped crying.
Qiao Wei wiped the dust off his face with a handkerchief: "Why are you here alone? Where are your parents?"
He said: "I came out with the housekeeper and Mama Wang, and I got separated from them."
"Young master! Young master!" A well-dressed middle-aged mother ran over, hugged the young master who had been lost and recovered, and cried loudly, "Finally found you! The slaves are almost scared to death!"
The young master shrugged uncomfortably, and said to her: "Mother Wang, I just fell on the street, and this sister saved me."
Mother Wang quickly wiped her tears, turned around and thanked Qiao Wei: "Thank you for saving my life—"
Before finishing the word 'en', she saw the other person's face clearly, and then froze.
…
Qiao Mansion, Qinghe Courtyard.
Qiao Yuxi was sitting in the room, practicing embroidery with her mother Xu. She cut the thread and handed her embroidery: "Mother, how do you think my embroidery is?"
Mrs. Xu took her daughter's embroidery and showed a satisfied expression: "That's right, the pair of mandarin ducks are embroidered so lifelike, it's much better than last month."
Qiao Yuxi was overjoyed: "Then I'll make a purse for Master Mingxiu."
"Yes." Mrs. Xu nodded, "Your Excellency, you should have some refreshments and try to get through the door as soon as possible."
She also wants to get married as soon as possible. In her dreams, she wants to become a beautiful prime minister's wife and be in love with the adults, but the adults just don't mention the matter of marrying her. What can she do? It's not easy to lower your face and ask him when he will marry her, right
"Mother, sir...does he not like me?" Qiao Yuxi lowered her head and asked.
Mrs. Xu put down the embroidery, and lovingly touched her face: "Silly boy, you are so beautiful, smart, and full of heart, which man would not fall in love with you?"
Qiao Yuxi remembered that she hadn't seen Ji Mingxiu for a whole month, so she couldn't help biting her lips: "But my lord..."
Mrs. Xu said: "He has a cold temper. You don't have to take it to heart. Just try to serve the old lady well and make no mistakes. Our marriage with the prime minister's mansion was decided when the queen was alive. How? I still have to marry you."
Qiao Yuxi frowned: "Having said that, I still hope that your lord really wants to marry me."
Xu smiled and said, "Of course he is sincere."
Such a flowery daughter, if she hadn't grown up in a Taoist temple, she would have already become famous in the capital, and the courtiers would have broken the threshold of Qiao's family.
No matter how noble the prime minister is, he is still a man, and a man likes a gentle and beautiful woman.
"Madam! Madam!" Outside the door, Mama Wang's anxious voice suddenly sounded.
Mrs. Xu patted her daughter's hand and smiled happily: "It's your brother who signed up and came back."
It was Wang Mama who entered the house alone.
Mrs. Xu looked behind her strangely: "Where's Yuqi?"
"The young master met the second young master in the garden, and the two of them went to play together." Mama Wang took out a pair of cards with the official seal and a piece of paper from her bosom, and presented them to Mrs. Xu, "The young master I'm done signing up."
Mrs. Xu locked the brocade box for the pair of cards and documents, and seeing that Mama Wang would not leave, she said, "Is there anything else?"
Mama Wang hesitated for a moment, then said: "Servant... Nuservant saw the eldest lady today!"
Xu said with a smile: "Isn't the eldest lady here? What are you talking about... Wait, who did you say you saw?"
Xu's expression gradually turned cold.
Mother Wang tremblingly said: "Eldest... Eldest Miss..."
Xu's eyes narrowed: "The big one?"
Mama Wang nodded!
"Who is it, mother?" A trace of confusion appeared in Qiao Yuxi's beautiful eyes.
Mrs. Xu said softly, "Your elder sister."
Qiao Yuxi's eyebrows twitched: "Didn't she already leave the capital? Why did she come back?"
The elder sister's matter, she had heard it mentioned before, knowing that she had a marriage contract with the prime minister's mansion, but she was entangled with His Royal Highness Prince Yin, and climbed into His Royal Highness Prince Yin's bed the night before the engagement. You know, it has completely lost the face of the Enbo Mansion.
If it weren't for the fact that the marriage between the two families was bestowed by the empress first, the Prime Minister's Mansion might have turned against the Qiao family long ago!
"Mother Wang, are you sure it's the eldest sister? Are you mistaken?" She frowned and asked.
Madam Wang said: "Although she is dressed very shabby, the servant will not admit her mistake. The servant guess... Did she have a bad time outside and came back to look for us?"
Qiao Yuxi became anxious, hugged Xu's arm, and begged: "Mother, quickly give her some money and send her away! Don't let her ruin my marriage with Lord Mingxiu!"
Xu sneered: "She is a broken shoe, what qualifications does she have to compete with you for marriage? She thinks she is still the young lady of the Qiao family? She should stop dreaming, the prime minister is yours, and no one can take it away! Mother Wang."
Mother Wang lowered her body: "Ma'am."
"Where did you meet her?" Xu asked deeply.
Mother Wang said: "On Chang'an Avenue, the young master said that she also went to sign up for the child prodigy."
Xu's expression paused: "Does she have a child?"
Mother Wang hurriedly said: "This... the servant didn't see it. The servant was afraid that she would recognize the servant, so she quickly took the young master away."
Qiao Yuxi shook Xu's arm, and said coquettishly, "Mother—"
Mrs. Xu patted her hand: "Don't worry, since she came to sign up, she will definitely show up on the day of the exam. You can find out what medicine she sells in the gourd!"
…
Qiao Wei took the children to find Xiao Wu, and ate three bowls of beef noodles and two bowls of mutton dumplings at a nearby noodle shop, which cost 500 Wen, which really hurt her to death.
With the damn prices in the capital, don't force her to sell preserved eggs for five hundred yuan one day!
"At first, I thought the registration fee was too expensive, but after eating the noodles, I realized that it was cheap." Ah Sheng said with emotion. He was studying in a private school in the town, and the one-month Shuxiu was only two taels of silver, but a meal in the capital was almost the same price.
Surrounded by people who traveled thousands of miles to sign up, there are not many people as shabby as Qiao Wei and the others.
Qiao Wei and the others are not far from the capital. If you sign up today, you can go back today, and you can take the exam at the end of the month. But if you are from other places, you have to live in the capital. With the consumption level of the capital, the poor really can't afford it.
Strange eyes cast towards Qiao Wei and the others.
Qiao Wei ignored it, and after Xiao Wu and the children were full, they checked out and left the noodle shop.
After queuing for an entire afternoon, Qiao Wei finally got the admission papers for the three children. The papers contained the children's names, ages, examination rooms, and seat numbers, which were somewhat similar to modern admission tickets.