Gong Fujiao Daughter-in-law

Chapter 24 Mother
The two of them came out of Rongjing Hall all the way, and their pace was not fast.

It seems that Weiying's Tiredness Zhai's charcoal fire is still enough, and he won't be too cold immediately. This time, he came here just as a gesture.

Xie Zhiyun quietly followed her, and the two of them walked for a while, neither of them was in a hurry to speak.

This aunt is actually a bit strange.

Xie Zhiyun had never met her before, and the Xie family had never provoked Huzhou Mu. As soon as she came to Su Guogong's mansion, she and Xie Zhiyun were at odds, and she was always critical.

But she is not only critical of Xie Zhiyun, except for Yu Hanzhao and Wei Ningshu, she doesn't like to see any of the female relatives in the Duke's mansion.

This is very strange.

Xie Zhiyun lowered his eyes and walked with Wei Ying for a while, but Wei Ying suddenly spoke.

"Now the family will be handed over to you?"

Xie Zhiyun said: "Yes, I just take care of my mother-in-law for a few days."

Wei Ying snorted coldly: "If it wasn't for Cui Ji's sickness all day long, I really don't want you to take care of family affairs. You nobles from high families and rich families are all golden branches and jade leaves. Mud legs like us can't compare."

Xie Zhiyun looked at her plain beige and moonlight skirt, but he didn't think she was insincere.

Except for the more solemn clothes she wore on the day when she first came back, these days she has become more plain. The clothes are not new, and she has been wearing them for many years.

But Weiying didn't care.

Xie Zhiyun followed behind her, and saw that the two had turned out of the garden and were about to reach the back room, so she stopped ninja and asked directly.

"Auntie, my nephew wants to ask my aunt why she hates my nephew so much," Xie Zhiyun said in a light voice, clear enough for Weiying to hear clearly, "My nephew has never seen my aunt, and Mrs. Xie has never met her." I have nothing to do with my aunt, so can my aunt show kindness and help my niece clear her doubts?"

Wei Ying's footsteps stopped.

When she turned her head, her gloomy hanging eyes glanced at Xie Zhijun.

And Xie Zhiyun just stood there generously, allowing her to look at her, she swiped her eyebrows lightly, her red lips smiled, as if she was not affected by this sudden reprimand at all.

Langhuan, the daughter of the Xie family, is a fairy descended from the mundane world.

Weiying couldn't help but think of what the world had said about Langhuan Xie.

She snorted coldly: "You are honest, you still know how to ask me."

Xie Zhiyun smiled: "Auntie is not an intolerant person, why can't she ask? If there is a misunderstanding, wouldn't it be better to solve it?"

She didn't want to hear her humming all day, it was annoying.

Wei Ying stared at her coldly for a moment, then turned around, and said: "I come from a humble background, even if I wear rich clothes now, I can't change that I am a rude peasant girl. I don't want to climb high."

She wasn't telling the truth.

Xie Zhiyun sighed slightly in his heart, and could only say: "Born is born, you and I are you and me, how can we confuse birth and disposition?"

Weiying walked forward, and finally only said: "Mrs. Boqian, do you think you have concealed yourself well?"

Xie Zhiyun was taken aback, and after a while, she lowered her eyes and followed Wei Ying's footsteps into the back room.

There are servant rooms, kitchen, water room and charcoal fire room on the rear side of the room. The charcoal fire room is next to the water room, which is not very big. There is only an old gray-haired servant sitting outside the two doors to guard.

Weiying came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, so it was impossible to talk to this servant, so Xie Zhiyun had to go forward and asked the servant to call the second housekeeper.

As early as when the two wives came to the back room, some servants had already called for the second housekeeper, so Xie Zhijun hadn't finished giving orders, and the second housekeeper ran over sweating.

At this time, he was busy eating dinner. He came from the kitchen, and his body was still stained with oily smoke.

Xie Zhiyun knew him too, and seeing his bewildered face, she explained to him about the charcoal fire in Juyizhai.

The second housekeeper slapped his forehead and hurriedly apologized to Weiying.

"It's my fault. The charcoal fire was distributed to each house for the second half of the month. Since it's already spring, according to the family's old practice, the amount should be reduced by one-third. The younger one was a little dizzy from busy work, so he forgot Madam's instructions. "

The second steward has followed Wei Cang for many years, and he had served Mrs. Ying in the early years, and he knew her temperament best, so he didn't argue, and knelt down to kowtow to Wei Ying.

"It's a small fault, please punish Mrs. Ying."

This is really crisp and neat, not ambiguous at all.

Wei Ying looked down at him with a calm expression, and didn't seem to be very angry.

Xie Zhiyun looked on coldly, even more gentle than when he looked at her.

Sure enough, Weiying said, "Okay, since you admitted your mistake, then half a month's money will be deducted, and this matter will be over."

As she said that, she turned away: "Get up quickly, what does it look like kneeling, we are not the kind of well-behaved people."

Xie Zhiyun: "..."

Why didn't you forget to mock me?
The second housekeeper quickly got up and saluted Wei Ying with a smile: "Mrs. Ying is still magnanimous and forgiving the little one's stupidity. The little one will send the charcoal fire of the difference to ensure that Miss Biao won't suffer from the cold."

It was just a trivial matter, Weiying didn't need to go to Cui Ji at all, and she didn't need to drag Xie Zhiyun to the back room. She asked someone to call Mrs. Zheng over, and the matter was resolved in a few words.

Xie Zhijun really didn't understand the purpose of her trip, so she didn't open her mouth until the two came out of the back room, stepped on the gravel path and returned to the garden, Xie Zhiyun saluted Wei Ying: "Auntie, this matter is over, and my nephew will be rejuvenated." Huating is gone."

Wei Ying turned her head, still looking at Xie Zhijun coldly.

Xie Zhiyun guessed that she had something to say, so she listened attentively.

"Madam Boqian," Wei Ying said, "you grew up in Langhuan, do you know that there was a natural disaster in Taixing 13 years ago?"

Xie Zhiyun was stunned.

She never expected that what Weiying asked was actually this.

Xie Zhiyun's eyes were bright, she raised her eyes slightly, and let Wei Ying stare at her for a moment.

She is not guilty, not flustered, and not afraid of being watched.

"13 years ago, my nephew was just five years old. At that time, there were many things in the family, and my younger brother was young, so I didn't know much about the outside world."

"Why does Auntie ask that?"

Wei Ying fixedly looked at her, seeing that she really didn't know, and said, "Forget it, you were a child at that time, what could you know?"

Saying so, she flung her sleeves and left.

Xie Zhijun watched her thin back disappear behind the evergreen tree, and then sighed lowly.

Jia Nanny has been following far behind, just now she catches up and holds Xie Zhiyun's hand: "Miss, let's go back first."

After returning to Chunhuating, Xie Zhijun washed his hands and face, and then retreated from the crowd, leaving only Nanny Jia to talk with her in the room.

"Mother, just now Weiying asked me, do you know what happened 13 years ago?"

Xie Zhiyun looked at Nanny Jia: "What does Nanny know?"

She remembered that her mother was seriously ill 13 years ago, and Xie Zhiyun was anxious, so she got a little angry. When she was shocked by the cold wind, she immediately had a high fever and stayed sick for more than ten days before getting better.

But when she recovered, the first news she got was the news of her mother's death.

She was in good health when she was young, her mother took good care of her, and she had never been seriously ill. This blow was too severe, and her newly recovered body deteriorated again, and she finally recovered after lying down for half a month.

At that time, the mother's funeral was over, so Xie Zhiyun could only go to her mother's grave to burn a stick of incense, which was regarded as a complete farewell to her mother.

In that one month of groggy, Xie Zhijun didn't know many things, and no one in the family dared to discuss them, so Xie Zhijun didn't know the reason.

"Nurse, in the early years, no one in the family talked about my mother. I thought it was my father who felt sad and sad. The family didn't dare to let him feel too sad, so I didn't talk about it. Later, a little longer, Ah Xing heard someone talking about it at home. , I have some doubts."

"But those few servants who talked badly were found talking about the master, and they were bought out early in the morning, and the servants in the family were changed again. Since then, no one knows about the early years."

Xie Zhiyun sighed: "Ah Xing's throat is stuck in this matter. Now he is acting more perversely and resenting his father more, and I have seen my parents love each other when I was young, so I don't believe those nonsense."

She slowly raised her eyes, looking sadly and pleadingly at Nanny Jia.

"Nurse, you have been by my side all the time, and you are an old man by my mother's side. You must know something."

"At this point, I'm also married, can mother tell me?"

Grandma Jia was silent.

She held Xie Zhijun's hand, only to realize that her soft hand was very cold, without any heat at all.

Nanny Jia looked at Xie Zhijun affectionately, and finally sighed as she looked at Qilin'er, whom she raised from a baby.

"I thought Miss didn't want to know anymore." Nanny Jia squeezed her hand and put her cold hand into her arms, "That day in the ancestral hall, Miss even comforted the Young Master. Dive into the past."

"I was wrong," Jia Nanny sighed, "Now that Miss asks, I will tell Miss what I know."

Jia Momo said in a nostalgic tone: "Madam's health has not been very good. In those years, there were constant wars, and there was a shortage of medicine. The century-old Xie clan still had some confidence. Until the young master was born, Madam's health was not good. It's not bad."

"The accident occurred in the sixth year of Yuanshou. On New Year's Eve that year, a group of bandits roamed around Langhuan and Taixing, but they never broke into Langhuan, so the Yuan Lantern Festival was still very lively that year."

"At that time, my wife was still in good health, so I thought about the excitement of the Spring Festival and took you and the young master to the Lantern Festival, but unexpectedly..."

Xie Zhiyun's heart trembled, and he asked hoarsely, "Unexpectedly?"

Grandma Jia sighed, quite a sigh of fate.

"Unexpectedly, a group of bandits broke into Langhuan and took advantage of the excitement of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival to plunder. There were so many people that day, and the Lantern Festival was in disarray, Madam was accidentally injured."

Xie Zhiyun felt pain in his heart.

Only now did she understand that her illness was not caused by the cold, nor was her mother's serious illness caused by a relapse of an old illness.

Xie Zhijun's voice became more and more dry: "Mother is to protect me and Ah Xing?"

Nanny Jia paused, she knew Miss was smart, so she didn't hide it.

"Yes," Nanny Jia said, "At that time, Madam took the young master and young lady away from the servants, so she had to protect the two young children alone."

Grandma Jia squeezed Xie Zhiyun's hand: "Miss, madam is a great hero, she is not weak."

(End of this chapter)