C21

The Senior Servant Liu squinted her eyes and looked at the two sisters who were standing below the stage, praising the Lady Ji, "People say that not only is the daughter of the Xu Pavilion's old home not just because of her appearance, but also because of her upbringing, if we meet each other today, she really lives up to it.

Xu Mingwei was still somewhat ignorant about these things, but she was clear about it. Being pulled around like that by Lady Ji, she was angry and embarrassed. However, she did not dare to offend the person in front of Eldest Princess, so she could only stand there and watch as Senior Servant Liu continued to curse the unmoving Lady Ji in her stomach.

Xu Mingwei nodded her head and did not say much else.

Senior Servant Liu had seen the little lawsuit between the two sisters. She was also an old man in the palace, and she had never seen anything like this. Xu Minglan's tiny act of concealment was not enough to hide from her eyes. On the other hand, Xu Mingwei, who was in the big house, didn't mind if her cousin snatched the present away, but she could easily sense her cousin's feelings, and easily split the gifts halfway. She didn't feel sorry for the gifts, if it was a child who didn't understand jade artifacts, then it wasn't that bad either. Senior Servant Liu could clearly see the flash of light in Xu Mingwei's eyes when she first saw the jade ruyi.

This pair of jade ruyi was specially found by the empress through her private storage. They were made from water and clear water, a rare piece of jade carved by a famous hand. It would be worth more than a city to say. At that time, the Senior Servant Liu felt that it was a pity. With such a good jade carving, it would be too wasteful to test the character of the young ladies of the Xu Family.

The Empress replied with a smile, "If he doesn't even recognize this, then he's a fool, there's no need to spend so much effort in arranging him by Eldest Princess's side."

Senior Servant Liu thought about it afterwards, and it made sense. For a place like the Xu family, where their daughter was raised, she would not even be able to differentiate between good and bad things.

The two ladies who were originally not worth their trouble trying to find out about the Xu Family were just being rumored outside. This caused the palace to be on guard. Although Lady Ji had received Xu Mingmei's reminder, she had already intentionally restricted her servants not to talk about this outside. The matter of the fourth wife calling for the Hongqing Tower's seat was spread outside. The capital only had this many places, and in just half a month, Xu Minglan's preposterous affairs had already spread to every single clan, becoming the example for the matriarchs to educate their own children.

When the Empress heard of this, although it was possible that it was spread outside, she was still worried. That was why she specially sent the Senior Servant Liu to the Xu family to see what kind of character Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingwei had.

Senior Servant Liu had already achieved her goal of probing the two sisters, and she could not wait to feign ignorance with Lady Ji again, saying that Eldest Princess would definitely have to wait on her, so she got up and bade farewell.

The Lady Ji had spent a lot of time to shake off the arrogance on everyone's faces. She was a little unwilling to leave, but it was not good to stop them, so they wrapped up a bag of silver and passed it to Senior Servant Liu when she was about to leave.

Senior Servant Liu secretly laughed at this rich man. Who would stuff money in like this, using silver notes to hide in their purse and giving it away as a mutual gift? That was the way to act cultured and refined. She weighed it in her hand and found that it was about 10 or 20 taels of silver, which was much more generous than the other wives. It could be seen that this landlord had his own advantages.

"Today, when I met this mama, I felt really close, as if I had known her for a long time." "Senior Servant Zhu, however, will look after these two children in the palace for the sake of meeting them today. If there's anything you don't know how to do well, you can discipline them as much as you want." Lady Ji held her hand and said.

"Second Wife is too polite, the two young ladies are so obedient and sensible, how could they need this old servant to discipline them. The palace was not as strict as Second Wife thought. They were all children, and the Empress could not bear to see the masters teaching Eldest Princess too strictly. The masters were all told by the Empress to do so, so Second Wife can rest assured. " The Senior Servant Liu comforted her.

Lady Ji thought that she had done all that she could do, so she reluctantly sent Senior Servant Liu away, and turned around and sat in her room in a daze. If it wasn't for her man not being able to work hard, she would not have sent Xu Minglan to the palace.

Just in time, Xu Mingmei cut a new set of clothes for her brother. She happily took it and came over to ask for Lady Ji's praise. But who would have thought that when Lady Ji saw her, he would scold her so harshly that she would have time to do these needlework. But she didn't seem to have improved in her writing at all, where had her books gone to!?

Xu Mingmei was full of passion, but Lady Ji poured a bucket of cold water over him to cool her heart. Throwing away Xiao Yi, she ran out. ShShedid not care that the Lady Ji did not allow her to leave the Second Branch Courtyard, she immediately ran into Xu Mingwei's moon-nesting. He did not even say anything when she entered the door.

Seeing that she was crying so bitterly, Xu Mingwei did not try to persuade her. He hugged her and cried to her heart's content as he stopped sobbing. Only then did he allow Wan Ting to bring a hot water basin.

"What's going on? Why are you crying so loudly? Who bullied you? " Xu Mingwei asked.

After Xu Mingmei cried for a while, she had recovered a lot. It was just a while ago that she felt wronged. Moreover, she did not speak of her mother's principles to her sisters. In the face of Xu Mingwei's question, she could only smile and shake her head.

If she didn't say it, Xu Mingwei would understand. Sigh, every family has their own problems. It is normal for Second Aunt to think highly of a man and his own daughter. It was perfectly justified for parents to beat and curse their children. It was already considered fortunate for the children of poor families to be able to give them food. Born into rich and prosperous villages like them, they were already much luckier. It was nothing to be wronged if one was not valued by one's parents. To complain about such a thing would make one feel wronged.

Not wanting to bring it up again, Xu Mingmei laughed, "It's been a while since I last visited the Seventh Sister's courtyard, is there anything new?"

She didn't mention why she hadn't come to the moon-nesting in such a long time, and Xu Mingwei didn't ask her about it either. The two of them had not seen each other for half a month, but it seemed as if they had just met yesterday. There was no estrangement between them.

Seeing that it was almost time for lunch, Xu Mingwei reminded Wan Rong and the others not to follow along. She pulled Xu Mingmei's hand and walked out, smiling at her mysteriously, "I'll take elder sister to see a strange thing."

Once she entered the courtyard, she heard Wang mama say that the seven girls had brought the six girls to find her. She hurriedly carried the lunch on her shoulders and ran over, startling Xu Mingmei, who was seeing her for the first time.

No wonder she was surprised. When Xu Mingwei pulled her out of the moon-nesting, he said that there was something strange she wanted to show her. Xu Mingmei thought that she had gotten some strange new stuff, but she never thought that she was bringing him to see a little girl. The little girl was still holding a big bowl of rice in each hand when they had just met. How could she not be shocked?

"Seventh Sister, this is …?" Xu Mingmei asked hesitantly, her eyes looking at the two buckets of rice. She looked at the peach again. It was an ordinary girl. At this moment, due to rushing all the way back, her face still had a peach red blush, making her look very energetic.