"Liu Xiaozi?" Cao Xiyang seemed to hear Liu Ruhai's voice. Scanning the layout of the house with his eyes, he realized that he should have gone to the back garden. He actually had the same purpose as her?
The wind on the porch stopped again.
Liu Ruhai stood sideways behind the window. He saw Aunt Wu from a distance and even recognized her second aunt.
His eyes were sharp, and behind the shadows of the trees at the end of the corridor was her figure in a dark red silk cape.
She wore the cloak, and he recognized it again at once.
It seemed that he was too close to her. He laughed and sighed. He heard a servant coming to invite her from the small hall behind his house.
Then he turned around and left.
Cao Xiwan's ears and eyes were stronger than ordinary people's. Due to the limited field of vision, she naturally couldn't see Liu Ruhai. But she was a spy and expected that Liu Ruhai would appear sooner or later, so she didn't need to worry.
As for the second aunt in front of her who was talking about the little wife again, she was too lazy to pay attention and took a few steps back.
"Cousin, this is not what I said..." Ting Niang also heard something that told her to follow Aunt Cao to the Marquis Mansion, and her face turned red with embarrassment.
She sneered, but she was used to it.
The second uncle is the only scholar in the Wu family. His parents sold his mother to the marquis's house just for him to study. He didn't even pay attention to his eldest brother, who usually likes to make decisions. Just a few of them.
Even his aunt hates him.
If the second uncle had not been in jail for a few days, the second aunt could have said this even more harshly.
From a distance, I could vaguely hear her mother Wu Auntie saying hesitantly: "This is not good. What kind of aunt? Because she was lost when she was a child, and became useful when she grew up. You asked me to adopt Xiaotian as your son, and she made a fuss."
I had a bad temper and stayed in the mansion for several years and never came back."
Cao Xiwan thought, Xiaotian was the second son, and he waited until he was six years old to bring up the matter of adoption. Didn't he come up with this idea just because he wanted to go to school and didn't want to spend money? Did he want to make money from her family?
Even if she doesn't succeed, Xiaotian's education in the past few years has been paid secretly by her mother. In a few years, Cao Xiaoshu, the eldest son of the second wife, will have to find a job and marry a wife, and her second uncle's family will have to act like a monster.
Listen to what her second aunt said:
"What are you afraid of? You are Xiaowan's mother, how can she deny you? Sister, you haven't given birth to a son in these years, why not adopt your brother's son early? People in your mother's family are considerate! I'm not talking about Xiaowan, outsiders are talking about Hou
I gave all the treasury in the mansion to Xiao Wan, but her uncle got no benefit at all? She became an aunt, so you will be more prosperous."
Cao Xiwan stood behind the corridor wall and thought for a while.
Her mother is a confused person who believes whatever she hears. She can't make up her mind at all. I guess she ignored her parents for several years last time. Her mother doesn't dare to mess around.
She was only a teenager at the time. She fell out at home and asked: "My daughter lives in a cemetery, washes clothes, and doesn't have enough to eat every day. Instead, she takes over other people's sons to raise them. Are there such biological parents in the world?"
——? I picked it up? You tell me clearly as soon as possible, and I will leave right away——! "
After walking a few steps and passing by the porch, I happened to see my father again.
Father Cao and a few dissatisfied slaves from his hometown were drinking wine together in the corridor, cursing the sky and the earth.
Her father was in the chief steward's house, his face was bright red, he was eating the chief steward's food and wine, and he was cursing the injustice of the chief steward and several stewards.
She sighed secretly and ignored her. Ting Niang hesitated: "Don't you ask uncle to go back?"
She coughed a few times, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, shook her head and said slowly: "How long can I control him."
He'll probably get frostbite tonight.
Next time, remember to wear thick clothes when visiting.
After all, she went to Mrs. Fan and borrowed some clothes. She glared at her father when she walked in and asked him to put on thick clothes when he went home.
Father Cao felt proud of his clothes and said, "Old Zhou still remembers me. How much did I plead for and help him in front of the great master?"
"Say less," she warned her biological father. He complied in a daze.
Sure enough, half of the ten sentences were missing.
"That's not Ting Niang. What's wrong with you? Tell me, I'll go find Lao Zhou. Aren't you just a girl?"
Forget it, you screamed like "Lao Zhou Lao Zhou" and turned around to ask your relatives to work as maids in the Zhou family. What kind of face do you have? Cao Xiwan sighed, let him continue to drink, and took Ting Niang away quickly.
Turning all the way to Huayuanzi, she looked at Ting Niang: "Have you thought about what I said?"
"Think about it, cousin, I will help you in this Zhou Mansion for two years, there is nothing I won't do."
Ting Niang nodded quickly. She originally thought that being a maid would be a good job. Now that she looks more respectable than a maid, how could she not be willing to do so?
She bit her lip: "My mother - I followed your mother into the Hou Mansion since last time, and she has been thinking about it day and night, planning to sell me into the Hou Mansion. The official media also came to see me. Fortunately, my wife last time
Small, it didn’t work.”
Cao Xiwan cursed secretly, the matchmaker in the mansion was the official matchmaker Old Lady Ding, and 90% of the time it was her aunt who came to find her father, and it was her father who came forward to find Grandma Ding that made her willing to go see Ting Niang.
Why are you mixing these things up? It’s not like my second uncle’s family can’t afford food, so they actually sell their children.
The Wu family sold her mother. She sold her out of greed.
I wish I could sell another one.
"But my mother doesn't give up. She is looking forward to having you as my aunt. She is looking forward to adding someone to her family."
Ting Niang smiled bitterly, pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief, and smiled,
"When I said I didn't want to, my mother scolded me. I thought, there is no room for me in the house. I might as well make my own plans. Cousin, look at the garden of Mr. Zhou's yard, which is no better than the yard of several wives in the Hou Mansion.
Mile difference."
Instead of going to the Hou Mansion, she first hid in the Zhou Mansion to avoid her mother scolding her every day.
"That's the reason. We are nothing in the Hou Mansion, we are just domestic slaves——"
She held Ting Niang's hand and walked slowly through a path of green bamboo forest. The green shadows of the green bamboos contrasted with Ting Niang's lake green cloak. It was cold, deep and distant.
There was no one on the bamboo path, so Cao Xiwan whispered to her:
"In the House of Governor Zhou, we are of the same generation as mine. If you want to advance or retreat, my parents can help you. Liu Ying'er is no different than usual. She is alone in the Hou's Mansion. She also chooses her own husband.
of."
"Thank you - thank you cousin for planning for me." She swallowed even more.
She smiled and pushed her to keep her away.
After all, Ting Niang was not my second aunt's temperament, and she had no intention of entering the Marquis's mansion and relying on her influence to influence everything.
Four uncles and more than a dozen cousins, only this one, Ming Li, was born.
This Ting Niang was still forced to this point before she came to beg her.
"You are here just as a girl from her natal family to help you. She has her own money to subsidize you. You can live and eat with her. If everything goes well, she will value you and let you take care of some things. You can stay.
Let’s take a long-term approach. If you have a chance, if you want to enter, you won’t have to worry about not being able to enter the Marquis’ Mansion..."
She went to the back garden where Liu Ying'er lived, and saw Liu Ruhai's green-shirted figure carrying a medical box on his back, walking in through the corner door of the garden. She thought he was having tea in the living room behind, and was only a few feet ahead of her.
As soon as she thought about it, she knew.
Liu Ying'er was probably pregnant, so she asked a doctor.
——But what does Liu Xiaozi want to do?
There are so many doctors in the capital, why does he have to come?
Autumn Tower in the Back Garden.
Qiu Tower is the three-bedroom residence of the Zhou family.
Lao Sanzhou Dashi and his daughter-in-law Liu Ying chose this living courtyard. There were only a couple, a mother-in-law and a little girl living there.
Even Cao Xiwan has felt that Liu Ying'er is different from others in these years. The world's knowledge is that of people in the yamen, but she also has the knowledge of daily life, relatives and friends at home, and the comings and goings of people. Liu Ying'er is attentive and thoughtful.
Be assertive and make plans for yourself.
Even Cao Xiwan was willing to listen to her and ask for advice from time to time.
The Zhou family lived together as a family. Liu Yingqian gave up the first and second bedrooms and chose to live in the back garden. As long as the corner door of the garden was closed, it was like living alone as husband and wife. How much worry did it save?