Su Jinyu wanted to play tricks with Xu Xiuyi, but he was actually a bit greener, so he easily defeated Su Jinyu, and Xu Xiuyi didn't dare to make any fuss.
As expected, Su Jinyu started eating and taking medicine. Xu Xiuyi asked someone to go to the old lady and tell him that Su Jinyu had agreed to give him the child, and asked the old lady to formally write the dumplings into the family tree and write them into Xu Xiuyi's hands.
Xu Xiuyi solved this dilemma for the old lady easily. The old lady didn't know what method she used, but she felt even more unhappy with Xu Xiuyi.
In the old lady's room, a lamp of sandalwood was lit, and she was concentrating. Su Yalan stayed by the old lady's bed, peeling apples for her.
Old Mrs. Su did not feel happy because Su Jinyu was finally willing to take medicine, but the expression on her face was even more gloomy.
Su Yalan always understood the old lady's thoughts, but now she couldn't guess who the old lady was venting her anger on with her humble face.
"Mother, are you still angry at Xu Xiuyi?"
Old Mrs. Su snorted from her nose.
"You have also seen her attitude. Relying on the influence of her mother's family, she is trying to take advantage of me."
When Su Yalan came back to her parents' home this time, she had already calmed down a lot. Because she came back in such a downcast state, she felt a little inferior in front of others. But behind closed doors, in front of Old Mrs. Su, she was still the same person who had nothing to do with Old Mrs. Su.
Talk bad about this, talk about that bad second lady of the Su family.
Hearing what Old Mrs. Su said, she also echoed: "No, I am very arrogant when I look at her. She doesn't look down on you at all, mother."
Su Yalan is ostracizing Xu Xiuyi now, but she is actually making plans for herself.
Xu Xiuyi is in front of this family. If the old lady goes there one day, Xu Xiuyi is not sure whether she will be willing to take her in. She was kicked out of the palace and was already humiliated. Someone poked her spine and pointed at her, which hurt her.
I don't even dare to see her. I always feel that everyone is looking at her as a joke behind her back.
Now that she is Mrs. Su, her biological mother is still alive, so the Su family has a place for her.
Once the old lady goes, Xu Xiuyi will kick her out if she can't protect her. She is eagerly hoping that the old lady Su will take back her rights and let her brother Su Jinyu take charge of the house. She will still have a bite to eat in the future.
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She couldn't stand the second expulsion. Being kicked out of the palace had already cost her all her face for thousands of years. If she was kicked out from home again, she probably wouldn't be able to survive.
She saw that the old lady's body was not very strong, and who knew whether she would pass away one day. She was worried that the old lady would not die so quickly, and at least suppressed the memory of Xu Xiu before leaving.
As for the old lady, she doesn't have much emotion anymore. The old lady is just a supporter for her. She doesn't have many expectations, she just wants a place to stay. She is afraid that Xu Xiuyi will be in charge and will not even give her a place to stay.
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Therefore, she complied with the old lady and pushed Xu Xiuyi to death: "I can see it clearly today. Xu Xiuyi is a very scheming person. It shows that he has taken away the anger of the second son's family. Look inside the door of our house.
Only the aggressive couple in the second child's family can compete with her. The old man's family have all become her dogs now. They are grateful to her. She tells them to go to the east but not to the west. When she calls them, they don't retreat.
Later, mother, you became ill again, and she lost her fear."
Old Mrs. Su was not happy, and her face became even worse when Su Yalan said this.
"Look at her now, even your fourth brother can bear it. I tried to persuade you and your fourth brother would not rely on me for life or death. She didn't understand my painstaking efforts of dragging a sick body and begging. Instead, she went there in the afternoon.
, your fourth brother just obediently started taking the medicine, she really wants to hold everyone in my Su family in her hands."
By this time, Su Yalan had understood why the old lady looked unhappy instead of happy when Su Jinyu started eating.
It turned out that the old lady had such an idea.
She naturally added fuel to the flames and said in a loud voice: "No, when I see my fourth brother crying like this, fighting for life and death, refusing to give Lan Yatou to her, and treating Lan Yatou as her darling, how can she, Xu Xiuyi, cry?"
If you ask me a few words, my fourth brother will be soft-hearted and let go. I think Xu Xiuyi either used a honey trap or moved out of her natal family again."
Speaking of the beauty trap, Su He, the old lady of the Su family, sat up from the bed. Due to the big movements, she felt dizzy for the first time. She screamed twice, and Su Yalan quickly got a pillow for her to lean on.
"Mother, please slow down."
"You mean Xu Xiuyi seduced your fourth brother?"
Old Mrs. Su couldn't wait to catch her breath. She just felt that if this was really the case, it would be such a scandal. If word spread, Xu Xiuyi could destroy her two sons.
Su Yalan did not expect such a big reaction from Old Mrs. Su, but when she saw Old Mrs. Su reacting like this, she felt secretly happy, but her face still looked heavy: "Mother, what do you think the fourth brother's temper is like?
The best thing to understand is that he is a stubborn person. You have not been able to control things he doesn’t want to do since he was a child. Let’s not talk about other things, just talk about those girls. You have repeatedly warned him not to touch them. As for him, he refuses to change despite repeated admonitions. In his bones
Even though she is a bit lustful, Xu Xiuyi is also a very beautiful person."
"Shut up!"
Old Mrs. Su knew that Su Jinyu was a pervert and would get attracted to prettier women, but she didn't allow others to tell her.
And this kind of thing is a glorious thing. Su Yalan's words did not say that Xu Xiuyi seduced Su Jinyu, but that Su Jinyu coveted Xu Xiuyi, she would be happy.
Su Yalan had lived in the cold palace for a long time, and her speech was no longer as tactful as before. The old lady shouted angrily, and she was startled and did not dare to speak again.
The old lady gave her a cold look: "Watch your mouth. If any gossip comes to me from outside, I will tell you to look good."
Su Yalan felt aggrieved. This was her biological mother. When she was well-off, she used to call her affectionate. Now she has no use value and has even brought bad luck to the Su family. She no longer regards her as a person.
Su Yalan bit her lip, tears were about to fall.
Mrs. Su finally softened her tone: "This kind of thing cannot be talked about randomly. Your fourth brother wouldn't act like this if he thought about it. He has a sense of proportion."
"Yes, it's Lan'er who is talking nonsense. Mother, please don't forget to keep this in your heart, so as not to get angry."
Su Yalan held back her grievances and covered Old Mrs. Su with a quilt before saying goodbye.
As soon as she returned to her Buddhist hall, she couldn't help but howl, and the serving maid Pearl came over and gently stroked her back.
"Grandma is so angry."
Both Pearl and Yingbi had served Su Yalan before. After Su Yalan entered the palace, Pearl and Yingbi went to the old lady's room and acted as second-class girls. Later, Su Jinyu slept with the old lady's favorite maid Mingxuan. In order to hide her ugly appearance, Su Jinyu
After sending Mingxuan to the countryside, Yingbi was promoted to the first-class girl next to the old lady, while Pearl was still a second-class girl.
This time when Su Yalan came back, the old lady put the pearl over to serve her, saying that it was an old man she had used before and she was more accustomed to using it.
Before she left home, she had a very good relationship with Pearl Yingbi. She had no airs about being a lady. Pearl and Yingbi were very friendly to her. When she came back this time, she believed that these two people were the only ones in the whole house who would not poke fun at her.
Her spine laughed at her, and she never concealed her emotions in front of Pearl.
This time she cried sadly, and Pearl comforted her softly. She simply hugged Pearl and cried, and her tears fell on Pearl's shoulders, oozing out a large water stain.
Pearl patted her back to comfort her, like comforting a child.
"Grandma, please don't cry. You'll get sick from crying."
"It would have been better for me not to come back at that time and go away to find a small place to live. Now I don't have to be so angry. My mother didn't like me before. It was difficult for me to live in the palace when I was about to enter the palace. I have to take care of everything.
, my mother refused to give me more money, and only took care of my eldest sister. Now I have embarrassed her, I have embarrassed the entire Su family, and she wants me to die."
Pearl hurriedly said: "Anyway, grandma, you think too much."'
"Why do I think too much?" Su Yalan let go of Pearl, with a look of resentment on her face, "Zhenzhu, you know best the status of our four sisters in her heart. The third child is a treasure, the fourth child is a pimple, the eldest sister is the palm of the hand, but I can't even
The flesh on the back of your hand doesn’t even count.”
"Grandma, why do you belittle yourself like this?"
Pearl feels that Su Yalan is a little extreme. Mrs. Su is biased in her treatment of her children, but Pearl has also served Mrs. Su for these years. During the time when Su Yalan's accident happened, Mrs. Su fasted and prayed for Su Yalan's safety every day.
Pearls are seen with one’s own eyes. I wonder if there is any mother in the world who wishes her children to die.
Pearl had been following Mrs. Su for all these years, so she naturally felt a little fondness for Mrs. Su. Knowing that Su Yalan was talking, she comforted her and said: "Grandma, please stop crying. The old lady loves grandma in her heart.
Grandma, look at everything in this house, all purchased according to grandma’s preferences.”
Su Yalan heard what Pearl said. Although it was not obvious in her words, she could still tell that she was looking towards the old lady. Although Pearl was her maid and had taken care of her when she grew up, after all, Pearl had been following the old lady in the past few years, so she could not keep her heart together.
Posted more to the old lady.
Su Yalan felt sad. She was the maid she loved the most, but now her heart no longer cares about herself.
However, she did not let the sadness show on her face. Instead, she wiped her tiredness and forced a smile: "It was actually my fault today. It's just that I have lived in the palace for a long time and my temper is bad. I know that my mother
It’s great for me.”
She said this on purpose. She was afraid that Pearl would tell the old lady what she said just now, which would make it really difficult for her to be a good person in the Su Mansion in the future.
Pearl looked at her and smiled slightly: "This is the best way for grandma to say."
"Oh Well."
She tried her best to maintain a gentle smile, but her heart became bitter.
It would be better not to come back then. Now, not only has she become a complete outsider in this former home, but she also feels that she is not even as good as a servant.
Hey, I thought she had her own glory days, but now, she fell from the clouds into the mud, rolling around trying to stand up, but there was no one who could support her.
She deliberately wanted to rely on the old lady, but she already understood the old lady's attitude today. She couldn't even compare to Su Jinyu.
As for Xu Xiuyi, she didn't dare to climb it.
The only person she can rely on is her biological brother Su Jinyu.
*
Su Jinyu didn't dare to cause trouble for her anymore. After Xu Xiuyi came back, she ordered Jinyuyinyu to hire a matchmaker tomorrow. As the head of the Su family, she wanted to marry Su Jinyu a wife.
This is a happy event, and the gold, jade, and silver are naturally rejoicing.
They probably didn't expect that when the matchmaker came the next day, what Xu Xiuyi asked was not whose virtuous lady was still waiting to be married, but said: "Seventh aunt, do you have anything that you have been asking for for many years and can't find it?"
The lady from your husband’s family?”
Gold, jade, silver and jade thought they had heard wrongly, and even the matchmaker thought she was old and hard of hearing, so she heard wrongly.
Until Xu Xiuyi repeated: "Seventh Aunt, do you have such a young lady in your hands?"
The seventh aunt said hurriedly: "There are all kinds of things. The people who have asked me to be a matchmaker over the years have all crossed the threshold of my family. If the third grandma wants to marry an old girl who can't get married, could it be... that she wants to give it to the fourth master?"
The seventh aunt is used to seeing the world, and after being surprised at first, she has become very calm now.
She thought that there must be something going on between the third grandma and the fourth master of the Su family.
Xu Xiuyi smiled slightly and winked at Jin Yu: "Go to the house and get three large ingots. I want gold and silver jade. You go to the door and guard it. Don't let anyone in. I have something to tell the seventh aunt."
The gold, jade, and silver jade people responded and went about their business. When the seventh aunt heard about three gold ingots, her eyes were straightened. She has been a matchmaker for many years, but she has never been such a wealthy host. She was able to give three silver ingots.
Yes, they are already a very good family.
Her red nose was buzzing with excitement. When she saw Jin Yu coming out with a gold ingot, her eyes were very bright and her smile was almost splitting behind her ears.
"Seventh Aunt, where are these three ingots? I'll keep two of them for you first."
"Third grandma, what is this?"
"There is always a deposit for everything, so as not to make you lose your capital, but I can't pay you the full amount, lest you fail to do something good and I lose my capital. Let me tell you straight to the point, this ingot is a deposit.
For the remaining two ingots, it depends on what kind of person your seventh aunt finds for me. If it suits my heart, these two ingots are yours, and I will give you another jade bracelet in private."
As she said this, she took off the bracelet on her hand, and the seventh aunt saw with sharp eyes that this table was made of high-quality mutton-fat jade, and its value would not be less than a gold ingot.
Her saliva will be left behind.
After working as a matchmaker all my life, I may not have saved as much money as I did this time.
The Su family is indeed a large and wealthy family.
She winked at Xu Xiuyi and said, "Grandma, don't worry, I have any kind of woman you want. Even if you want the kiln sister in the hook bar, a pair of jade arms and a thousand-person pillow, I can also make you a woman from an innocent family."
Send it in."
It seems that the seventh aunt is a very smart person, and it is easy to talk to smart people.
"Sister Yao, there's no need for it, lest your identity be exposed one day and bring shame on my Su family. You just need to find an old girl who can't marry, and you can marry blindly and dumbly. It all depends on your mouth. The seventh aunt is a smart person and knows how to be a matchmaker.
How to say it when."
"Of course, if I take advantage of you, grandma, how can I not be smart?"
"Seventh Aunt, I'm going to say the ugly things right up front. If you don't do what I want, you, the old man, won't be able to enjoy this ingot."
Xu Xiuyi just wanted to stop the seventh aunt from thinking about earning a yuanbao. The seventh aunt was a greedy person. She held one in her hand that was not enough for her to hold, and looked at the other two and the bracelet with sneaking eyes.
, can you do things "with all your heart and soul"?
Immediately she patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, Third Grandma, I will definitely find a top-notch good woman for your Fourth Master."
The word "excellent" made Xu Xiuyi want to laugh, and even added the word "superior". Xu Xiuyi could even predict what kind of face Su Jinyu would be like on the night of the wedding.
She had no intention of ruining a good lady, so she asked the seventh aunt to find an old girl.
In this era when men had three wives and four concubines, women were in high demand and those who could not be married off were probably of the highest quality. Xu Xiuyi specially used three gold ingots and a jade bracelet to send them to Su Jinyu's room.
It must be the best of the best, and it just matches Su Jinyu.
*
After seeing off the seventh aunt, Xu Xiuyi went to the counter. She rarely went there now, leaving all the important tasks to Su Jinye.
Su Jinye is not that capable. After all, he has been a coward for so many years, so it is still difficult to run Qibaotan.
However, Afuguan Dahu and others are capable hands, and together with a few cobblers, they have also made the Baoan Tang business a success.
When Xu Xiuyi went there, Su Jinye was diagnosing the pulse of a woman. Xu Xiuyi took a look and felt that she had seen her before, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before. It wasn't until she entered the inner hall and saw An Chengshao that she suddenly remembered that woman.
She is a beauty who is dressed in gold and jade, and she acts coquettishly and asks Master An Cheng if she is good-looking.
She was not dressed in a youthful, lively and gorgeous way today. She was wearing pink clothes, a simple bun, and no makeup. No wonder Xu Xiuyi didn't recognize her at first glance.
An Cheng was quite surprised to see her less, but because there were people around, it was difficult to hug her, so he could only resist his impulse, walk up to her, and look deeply into her eyes.
"I haven't seen him for several days."
He spoke in a low voice. The shop faced the street and there was a lot of noise outside. Although there were people in the inner hall, the only one who could hear clearly was Xu Xiuyi who was standing close.
She also didn't expect to see Master An Cheng in Baoning Hall today.
Looking outside the room, she couldn't help but feel a little jealous. Xu Xiuyi obviously accompanied the woman to see a doctor. What was her name? Master An Cheng seemed to have mentioned it that day, but she didn't remember it.
"Is she sick?"
she asked.
"Well, she has a special constitution and cannot eat fish or shrimp. Last night..."
When he said this, he paused for a moment, and Xu Xiuyi frowned slightly, almost invisible.
Last night, so Mr. An Cheng was with that woman last night.
"Oh, it's probably an allergy."
She said calmly and her tone was cool.
An Chengshao heard that she was unhappy and hurriedly explained: "The Fifth Prince is here too. Let's have a drink together. It's not what you think."
Seeing him eager to explain, Xu Xiuyi suddenly smiled, her smile was very beautiful.
"I didn't say anything either."
"I thought you were unhappy," he said.
Xu Xiuyi replied: "I'm really unhappy."
He was startled, and then a beautiful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Are you eating something?"
"Some." She admitted generously, his smile widened, and his eyes were filled with tenderness.
"Xiu'er, do you miss me?"
While they were talking, a waiter walked over to Xu Xiuyi, and the two of them quickly restrained their flirtatious expressions. Xu Xiuyi felt annoyed, and it was a defeat for her to fall in love like this.
Why not An Chengshao? He wanted to hold Xu Xiuyi's hand openly and openly and declare to the world that this is my An Chengshao's woman.
The person who came over was from the accounting room. Xu Xiuyi assigned Wang Yun, an official from Guixi, to the accounting room. Wang Yun had drank ink, and he was able to handle almost everything in the accounting room. Every day, Wang Yun remembered the money coming in and out of the store.
, Xu Xiuyi occasionally looked at the account books, and there was nothing to find fault with, so he promoted Wang Yun to the position of accounting supervisor, and assigned several people to follow him to learn accounting.
Xu Xiuyi is someone who wants to do a big business. When she buys a drug store, the top leaders will definitely be sent out from the main store. So now others think she has a lot of idle people, but in fact she is just making preparations in advance.
Wang Yun came over to show her the account books. Xu Xiuyi had difficulty listening to the words in Guixi Jingcheng dialect, but she had no trouble reading the account books.
With Young Master An Cheng around, she didn't really pay attention to reading. She just flipped through a few pages and handed it to Wang Yun: "You don't have to read it to me every time I come here. I trust Brother Wang. Once a month, I'll send someone to the house."
Just go up."
Wang Yun felt very deeply about her newcomer.
"Okay, then I will make two copies from now on, one will be kept in the store, and the other will be sent to Third Grandma's house."
"Well, you go and do your work."
Xu Xiuyi said a few words to Wang Yun, then turned to look at An Chengshao: "Do you think I am full of philistine?"
"No, you are full of fragrance."
He spoke with ambiguous words, and Xu Xiuyi blushed.
God knows how much pain he is enduring now. He wishes that everyone around him would evaporate, or that he and Xu Xiu would become transparent, so that he could hold her soft and fragrant body in his arms and kiss her shy face wantonly.
and pink lips.
He endured it extremely hard, and suddenly a warm body rushed into his arms.
"Master Cheng, you've been waiting for a long time."
Xu Xiuyi's heart skipped a beat. If it was the intimacy between brother and sister, but such intimacy without blood relationship really stung her eyes.
An Chengshao didn't expect Qin Yan to pounce on him like this. Although Qin Yan was not as reserved as a woman in front of him, and would often hold hands and wipe her face in a naughty manner, she was not so ignorant of the rules.
Seeing Xu Xiuyi's face gradually becoming colder and then turning distant, he became anxious and pushed Qin Yan away.
"What are you doing? There are no rules in a big girl's house."
"You're being mean to me again." Qin Yan muttered, as if he didn't see Xu Xiuyi.
Xu Xiuyi chuckled, she was clearly right in front of her, Qin Yan was deliberately ignoring her, she understood what this girl was thinking.
She turned around, feeling that she could not take advantage and suppress this girl's arrogance, and she could not throw herself into An Chengshao's arms.
What's more, this isn't her temperament, so it's better to stay out of sight to avoid hurting her eyes.
An Cheng saw her leaving and came up anxiously: "Xiu..."
He yelled and then shut up in panic. When he started to yell again, he was stopped by Qin Yan. He started talking about her illness, which made him very upset, but he couldn't lose his temper at Qin Yan. After all, she was ill.