Chapter 108: Yao Family Visits

Hearing that Xi Fuwei didn't say anything yet, Yu Kedi was already laughing and screaming: "Why is someone coming to you again? Is this place for adults or you?"
"Who is looking for me?" Xi Fuwei gave him a blank look, stood up, and asked the person who reported the letter, "Is it a man or a woman, old or young?"
The man said: "It's a woman who looks at her in her thirties. She calls herself Yao. She said she lived on the first floor when you were in Zou Mansion."
"Aunt Yao, why are you here?" After a while, Xi Fuwei led Yao into the house where he lived. After serving the tea by hand, he asked politely, "It's still cold this day, hurry up and drink hot tea. Warm up."
Inquiring, she actually knew in her heart that 80% of the Yao family had come for Yao Zhuo.
"I'm here to thank you." Sure enough, Yao took a sip of hot tea, and after some blood floated on his pale face, he pushed the basket he had brought to her and said softly, "The bottom of our mother and daughter, Shen You know, sir, there is nothing decent in your hand, you can only show your heart, and please don’t dislike it."
Xi Fuwei glanced at the basket. There were a few pieces of embroidery. Although they were not large, the materials were all excellent. At first glance, they took out the best part of the Zou Mansion's clothing.
Yao's embroidery work is quite outstanding. These embroidery pieces have flowers, birds, fish and insects, with different expressions and lifelike appearances. The fine stitches are attentive at first sight, not in a hurry.
Calculating the time, it is estimated that embroidering started after the daughter’s accident...No, maybe these were embroidered earlier, but it might not be thought that the daughter is excellent, but for other purposes.
For example, sell it out to save a dowry for your daughter?
Xi Fuwei was silent for a moment. Actually, when she heard that Yao had come, she was ready to be yelled at by the aunt's nose.
After all, although Yao Zhuosu wasn't the victim of her, or even if she didn't mention it to Chen Xiaolan, I'm afraid that the girl doesn't know where she is now, or whether she can even be alive... Xu Jingchang looked like a good-looking girl. The heart is not soft at all, the girl who is tired of playing, some who change hands and give it away, and some who are killed in anger, as Yongle Emperor's particularly favorite nephew, "The Law of the Ming Dynasty" is a decoration for people like him. .
But if it weren't for Xi Fuwei, or if it weren't for Sinking Lan, Yao Zhuosu wouldn't come to the door years ago.
She will not be caught by Xu Jingchang if she does not come.
The culprit in this incident is of course the Duke Dingguo, but that is the noble man whom Chen Tanlan must treat politely. What if the Yao family hates him and blames him?
Xi Fuwei thinks it is understandable if Yao clan angers Lan and Xi Fuwei.
Of course, understanding is due to understanding, which made her bear Yao's accusations... she may not be willing.
Originally, he was ready to talk to the Yao family. Who knew that Yao family didn’t cry and didn’t make trouble. On the contrary, he gave Xie Lilai. This kind of reasonable energy made Xi Fuwei embarrassed and said, " This matter... also we didn't guard against it, so that sister Yao was wronged. Auntie doesn't blame us. How can we still ask for things from auntie?"
"Injustice and debt are in charge," Yao said calmly, "Although the people who have harmed Zhuo Su are extraordinary, so that our mothers and daughters can only sigh hard for themselves, but it is not your fault after all. Neither are you. It was very offensive, but I still ordered Zhuo Su down, and helped to cover up... How can I not thank you? Although I don't know a few words, right and wrong can still be distinguished."
Xi Fuwei sighed more and more in her heart because she was so sensible, but the Xu family brothers and sisters had a good father, so they couldn't really move, so I couldn't say a few words of comfort at this moment.
Fortunately, the Yao family didn't intend to stay for a long time. He delivered the things, expressed his gratitude, and left without sitting much.
Said that he was planning to take advantage of this while it was still in the first month, so if Zou Qiong did not go to school, he would do more needlework.
"A few young ladies miss Mr. Shen very much," Xi Fuwei said when she sent her out, "especially the relatives who came to pay a New Year's greetings two days ago. The young lady who was about the same age stumped the young ladies with questions. Miss We all said that if Mr. Shen was there, he could untie it in a moment."
"I miss a few young ladies too." Xi Fuwei smiled.
It's ashamed to say it.
She entered the Zou Mansion before under the guise of giving Zou Qiongruo and the others to be female husbands.
But in fact, the attention spent on Zou Yiang is estimated to be more than that of these girls.
It is difficult for them to remember themselves.
After the Yao family left, Yu Kedi came over to inquire about the passing, and then said, "This aunt is still smart."
Because, "Her daughter is now arranged by our people, and dare to come over and make trouble with us, let's not do anything, just send people back to Zou Mansion, do their mothers and daughters still have a way to survive? It's strange not to be talked about."
Xi Fuwei smiled and said, "Why do you...how do you always think people so badly? The first month has not passed, can't you think about something good? For example, Aunt Yao is actually so sensible, just not irritating at all. Thank us very much."
"We are too naive in this business." Yu Kedi said with an old temper. "This is all my father's experience passed down during his lifetime. Tell you you don't want it? Do you know that my father and they wanted to take the heinous criminals from prison? , There are only a handful of people who don’t look like good things seriously, most of them are the kind you would never expect to kill?"
"I don't care about hunting bandits." Xi Fuwei raised the bar and said, "Besides, not everyone who looks like a good person is a bad person?"
Yu Kedi wanted to tell her something, but because his colleagues wanted to help, he called him away.
When Xi Fuwei saw this, she went back. Everyone was very busy this day, but it should be because she was a girl, and Shen Pilan never arranged errands for her.
But at night, Yu Kedi ran over and called her: "Go to the study and wait for the adults. I have something to go outside the city."
"Now?" Xi Fuwei looked out the window, it was already dusk, and the city gate was firmly closed.
"Of course it's now." Yu Kedi wiped his face off from sweat or melted snow, and said, "Just go down from the city, talk to the defending army, don't worry about this. Now I really can't get any manpower, you can only go to the adults."
He also told her, "I guess you will have to serve the study in the next few days, and you will have to deal with the classics related to Kaihe. At least when an adult wants to find it, you should find it as soon as possible, instead of going through the entire study, and the adult himself Get up and help you find...In that case, no matter how good the adult is to the people below, it will happen."
Xi Fuwei promised to push him out of the door: "I will go by changing my clothes."
She died not long after her father and brother, although she lived in Shen Chelan’s yard and it was not easy to wear filial piety publicly. Now that I am going to the study, I have to change into a less taboo dress, otherwise it will inevitably be annoying.
"You can find all the maps of the rivers near Jining for me." Before entering the study, Tan Tan hadn't lifted his blue head, so he ordered.
Xi Fuwei hurried to find.
This study is not unfamiliar to her. After all, she has come in several times to report things, but she is not very familiar with it. The main reason is that she used to stand behind the book case and report, and she did not notice the bookshelf at all. Don't talk about the books on the shelf.
So it's a little messy.
Finally, I got all the maps that Tan Lan wanted, and Tan Lan wanted some books on hydrology.
When Yu Kedi asked Xi Fuwei to come and serve him, he said that he was serving pen and ink, but in fact Xi Fuwei hadn't studied ink for Shen Pilan at all that night, and he was basically looking for and flipping books.
It wasn't until the sky was clear that Chen Qianlan put down Zihao tiredly, and said, "Clean up a little bit and go to rest. Wait until the daylight hours to continue."
He said to take a rest, but almost all the books and maps on the bookshelf were taken down this evening. At the moment, the whole book case was in a mess, as well as the small tables nearby. Shen Qianlan said and left. After leaving, Xi Fuwei managed to tidy up after half an hour. Seeing the bright lights outside, I dragged my head back, almost falling asleep without taking off my outer shirt!
This is just the beginning, and no one from the top and bottom of the Weisuo will be able to relax for a while.
Even the old servants of the Shen family were used by Chen Pilan.
Xi Fuwei is the easiest and most envied treatment in the eyes of everyone. It is to wait in the study all day long. You don't have to go out in the wind and snow, and you don't have to fight with people with real swords and guns. He also occupies the advantage of being near the water. benefit.
But in fact, this mission is not so easy. Chen Qianlan is not a gentle and considerate person, and he is even more vigorous and resolute in doing business.
With the passage of time, Song Li got closer and closer to Shandong, and the project to open the river was already under intensive preparations. He had to deal with more and more documents and check documents every day.
This caused Tan Lan's temper to rise sharply, but his patience quickly fell.
Whenever he asked for something, Xi Fuwei hesitated and didn't find it, she would furiously and sternly reprimanded!
Only without reprimanding twice, the movement in the study quickly diminished.
A general banner said in private half jokingly: "The grown-ups still pity and cherish jade. It's no wonder that Miss Xi looks like a man who doesn't feel bad when he sees it?"
But I didn't know that he was amazed by stealing Lan Xinxia.
I thought of a record that day, but I don’t remember it very clearly. I was thinking about which book it was in. Xi Fuwei had already reminded: "It’s in this book with you. The third column on page 29 begins. of."
Shen Pilan opened it and saw that it was true. He thought she had just read it, and didn't pay any compliment.
Who knew what he was looking for next, Xi Fuwei always opened her mouth and never made a mistake.
In this way, not only did she relax herself, but also Shen Qianlan dealt with official duties quickly.
So two days before Song Li arrived, he was actually free for a while, and he asked, "I think you are familiar with all of these? Wouldn't you memorize them all?"