The eldest wife of the Ye family is a very powerful woman. Before her husband was deceived by the concubine, she won her husband's heart purely by her ability. Even though there were two aunts in the family, her status could not be shaken at all. The two sons in the family were all born to the wife, and the two aunts only gave birth to a few young ladies.
These are all mentioned in the basic strategy. Among the few young ladies who stand out, they are all recorded under the name of the aunt. In the eyes of the eldest lady, concubine-born daughters are just tools for future marriages. Giving them the status of half-legal daughters is just for a better "price" in the future.
Ye Xu came to the main courtyard with his entourage, and found that the servants here were much more disciplined than other places.
Ever since the concubine came, Master Ye has not stayed in the main courtyard for a long time. Even so, none of the servants dared to underestimate Mrs. Ye, on the contrary they were more cautious, for fear of being caught in the wrong place by Mrs. Ye.
"Second Young Master is here." When the gatekeeper saw Ye Xu, she didn't dare to neglect her, and hurriedly led Ye Xu in.
The second young master studied abroad for several years, and came back only a few times. The youngest son was loved more, so the wife hurt the second young master even more. But when the servants were gossiping behind their backs, they felt that with Er Shao's temperament, it was absolutely impossible for him to go to school. Touring mountains and rivers was pretty much the same, but he didn't dare to say it in front of his master.
Ye Xu glanced at the yard, a beautiful woman dressed as a wife was kneeling there, and beside her was a girl in a fancy dress standing at a loss. Although he didn't recognize her, Ye Xu could probably guess that this girl was a concubine from the mansion, and the person kneeling beside her should be her biological mother, a certain aunt in the mansion.
"Second Young Master." Auntie bowed to the ground, not daring to raise her head.
Ye Xu nodded at her, then looked at the girl again: "Sister, do you want to go in and sit?"
The concubine bit her lips: "Is it okay?"
She wanted to go in and plead with the madam, but she was afraid that the madam would scold her with a cold face.
Although she is a young lady in the mansion, she is not as smart as the other sisters, and she was not selected by the wife to be recorded in her name, so she is very inconspicuous. Besides, how can the wife of the main house be happy to see the children in the house treat the aunt as their "mother". Even if the aunt is her biological mother, the general aunt would wish that their mother and daughter would be divorced, and they would never see each other. The mother of the aunt.
Ye Xu roughly knew what was going on, and he had a plan in mind, so he generously invited Miss Shu into the house. Now that the concubine is in power in the house, it is reasonable to say that the aunt and wife will share the same hatred, and it is basically impossible for the aunt to offend the wife, so now that the aunt is punished to kneel, there is naturally a hidden reason.
The most probable situation is that the concubine wants to take the aunt first, and the trouble comes to the madam, and the madam has to punish her twice. And Madam didn't ask someone to take Miss Shu away, but instead let her stay here with Auntie, which is already a good explanation - Madam didn't want to punish Auntie, so she took the opportunity to sell Auntie, and let her daughter accompany her, so that it wouldn't be too late. It's tough alone.
Ye Xu didn't say anything more, and directly ordered Zi Zhi: "Help the young lady in, she is weak and cannot stay in the sun for a long time."
However, the sun has set, where is the sun. And it seems that the mother and daughter didn't stay here for long, and they probably came here in the evening.
Zizhi hurried up to support Miss Shu, and helped her into the room with half force. In the house, the lady was sitting and drinking tea, when she saw Ye Xu coming in, she immediately smiled.
"Jiu'er, come here quickly." She waved at Ye Xu, "Looks like you've lost weight again, and you won't be able to eat properly when you go home."
Ye Xu, who ate up all the dishes at night, decided to keep silent.
Madam greeted Ye Xu to have some snacks and tea, and then seemed to realize that Miss Shu had entered the room: "The third girl came in too? Sit down quickly, look at this little face, it is all red from the sun."
When talking nonsense, Madam and Ye Xu looked like mother and child. Mo Bei complained silently in his heart, no wonder Ye Xu can be the second young master but he can't.
Third Miss was a little at a loss: "I've seen my mother."
"Okay, don't be too polite." Madam said softly, "This time it's wronged your aunt, it's not her fault. It's just that your father insisted on punishing Aunt Hu, so I can't say anything. But it's getting late now, I should rest too, you help your aunt go back to rest."
The third girl was immediately moved to tears: "Thank you mother! Thank you second brother!"
Ye Xu waved his hand: "Hurry up and ask the doctor to show Auntie's legs. You can't get rid of the root cause of the disease. Just say it's my fault."
Although Aunt Hu was able to confuse Master Ye in terms of love, at the beginning, she couldn't make Master Ye not want his son immediately. In Master Ye's heart, the two sons are the most important, which is why Aunt Hu can't act rashly, she has to test a little bit, starting with the low status.
This time Ye Xu said it was his intention, so Master Ye wouldn't ask too much. And he wouldn't feel that his wife was being obedient to him, saying that he would be punished with the front foot, but the back foot would just toss it twice and expose it.
The third girl saluted hastily and went out anxiously. Ye Xu turned his head and asked his wife why she asked him to come here. Generally, if nothing happened, the wife would not take the initiative to summon him, and she would visit her son in the yard by herself.
"It's nothing, I just made you a new belt." The lady smiled and picked up a belt from the side, "Look and see if you like it."
Ye Xu suddenly understood that the belt can be given at any time, but it must be given when it is getting dark, and it is still stuck at the point of having just eaten, obviously the ulterior motive is not in the wine. In fact, she just wanted to call Ye Xu over and pass her a step, so that she could get rid of Auntie earlier.
It is a good story to say that the second son Zhai has a kind heart and kindly spared his aunt's punishment. Auntie has a special status, she can be said to be the elder of the young master, or she can be said to be a half servant. As long as the public opinion is controlled and not guided by the saying that the second young master has a crush on my aunt, that's a good thing.
Ye Xu took the belt and praised a few words, and he just thought of words to praise, he is really not good at polite compliments. Fortunately, the second young master's personality is that he is ignorant but likes to flaunt himself as a scholar, so Madam just covered her lips and smiled when she heard this, and she has long been used to it.
"You, go back and read more books." She nodded Ye Xu's head, "Don't approach the backyard, it's not peaceful recently. That Aunt Hu has been trying to catch the pigtails of the people around me. You almost hurt Qiangwei next to me, so be careful."
Qiangwei is a powerful servant girl by Madam's side, if she is abolished, it will be a great blow to her. Fortunately, Madam has been in the inner house for so many years, not a vixen relying on sorcery can casually entrap her, so that time it was just a near miss.
Although this vixen has the treacherous and cunning temperament of their race, after all, he has few contacts, and the tricks are not easy to use, and even a bit inferior. Qiangwei was able to be tricked before, but it was because she was ruthless.
Ordinary women in the inner house would not use such a strong trick, and it is easy to get themselves involved. If Master Ye hadn't been bewitched by sorcery, Aunt Hu would have been caught by his wife and sent to the wrong place.
It's a pity that it's useless to put the evidence of Aunt Hu's crimes in front of Master Ye at this moment. Only by letting Master Ye see Aunt Hu become a vixen can the illusion be broken. Otherwise, the madam would be able to take care of her without Ye Xu's intervention.
"It's getting late, go back and rest quickly. Tomorrow your eldest brother will go to the neighboring city to discuss business, so remember to get up early to see him off," Madam ordered.
Ye Xu had no objection: "I wrote it down."
There must be more than just him and Mo Bei in this dungeon, there are others. But this kind of role-playing copy cannot reveal their identities, so it is difficult to find all players. If you observe by yourself, you may not find any if you are lucky.
Although Ye Xu doesn't need so many teammates, it's good for him to find out which ones are players and which ones are NPCs. Otherwise, if the player hiding in the dark accidentally damages his layout, he may not even know what went wrong.
Mo Bei's identity is a bit more convenient than Ye Xu's. He is a servant and can move around to contact servants everywhere. As a young master, Ye Xu can't run around, it's demeaning. And no matter where he went, those servants would deal with him carefully, making it even harder to find something wrong.
After bidding farewell to his wife, Ye Xu led Mo Bei towards his yard.
The young master's yard in the mansion is in the front yard, but it is very close to the back yard. The ladies and aunts all live in the backyard, and the young master and them don't meet often.
The main courtyard is also in the back yard, and Ye Xu had to walk a certain distance to enter the front yard. In such a short distance, Ye Xu bumped into Master Ye who was hugging Aunt Hu.
"Father." Ye Xu saluted Master Ye.
He didn't know who they were at first, but he couldn't help Aunt Hu was too recognizable, so it must be Master Ye who was hugging her.
Master Ye was also very happy to see his youngest son whom he hadn't seen for a long time: "Jiu'er, don't run around when you come home this time. Your elder brother is engaged in a few days, and your marriage will also be looked after."
"Father said so." Ye Xu didn't change his face, anyway, when he waited for his relatives to meet, he ran away, what was he afraid of.
As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Aunt Hu. It's not because of how beautiful she is, Ye Xu has seen too many beauties, and the female awakened in the horror escape are all beauties, but because... this Aunt Hu, she has a fox face.
I don't know if this is a special perspective for the player in the dungeon or what, the NPC sees Aunt Hu's beautiful and enchanting face, but what the player sees is the face of a real fox. Anyway, in Ye Xu's eyes, there was a monster with a human body and a fox face standing opposite, like a man-eating monster in an absurd horror story.
Mo Bei was obviously also shocked by this appearance, with the expression of eating flies in a row. Fortunately, he buried his head in time, otherwise the NPC would have to see it.
[Squad] Mo Bei: Oh my, my, my! You should let your father see the face of this monster, I believe he will never be able to stand up again after watching it!
[Squad] Ye Xu: ... I'm still a baby, please don't talk dirty to me, thank you.
[Squad] Escape system: Then replace it with a fox body and a human face
Mo Bei: "???" System Dad, why did you come out suddenly? Haven't you been in hiding for a long time? !