Chapter 43: Seeing with Different Eyes (2)
She watched her husband come out from the back of the main room, followed by a maid holding her little son. She looked closely and found that it was the young girl who told stories to Brother Lang.
When Yue'er saw his mother, he stretched out his arms to hug her. Jiang took the child from Su Qing, and Su Qing quickly bowed to Jiang and greeted her.
Yue Ge'er stared with his big eyes and said softly, "Mom, look at the turtle."
Jiang was suddenly stunned. She looked up at her son in disbelief, then turned to look at her husband, "Zhiyuan, Yue Ge'er, he spoke on his own initiative?" Soon her eyes turned red.
Zhiyuan is Meng Shao's courtesy name.
"I was just about to tell you about this. Let's go to Fourth Sister's room and talk." He walked up the stairs, turned around and said to Su Qing, "Come in too."
Watching the group of people enter the main room, Wanxiang, who had just entered the yard with the fourth young lady's washed clothes, held the two ends of the wooden basin tightly with her hands, and her mind was full of the way Meng Shao turned around and talked to Su Qing.
Su Qing entered the room, only to see Langge'er and Sister Qi half-kneeling on the window seat, looking at the crystal fish tank on the table, where several goldfish were swimming happily. These were the ones that Third Young Master Meng Wei had found for Sister Qi a few days ago.
Lang Ge'er has been talking about these goldfish for a long time, but he knows that even if he asks for them, Meng Qi won't give them to him and Jiang Shi won't allow it either, so he can only watch helplessly.
Jiang was very strict in disciplining her son. In her opinion, raising birds, fish and the like was a waste of time. Her son was going to be a marquis in the future, so he must not be raised in a wrong way. Therefore, Jiang was very disdainful of Meng Wei who often found these things for Meng Qi. Both of them were not doing their jobs properly.
Meng Qi was a little surprised when she saw Su Qing coming in. Because Su Qing was not a member of the class, she was not qualified to go to the upper room except for the half-hour storytelling time every day.
Meng Qi frowned and said, "Who asked you to come in?" Then he thought, could it be that Brother Lang wanted to listen?
Then she felt unhappy. Compared with Meng Shao, Meng Qi liked Meng Wei more. In fact, Meng Shao was also very good to her. The key was Jiang. She knew that Wang didn't like Jiang. She had heard Wang and Guo's mother complaining that Meng Shao didn't listen to them. In addition, Jiang didn't respect Wang much after she came in. On the contrary, she was very close to the second aunt. This made Meng Qi very dissatisfied. Over time, she also disliked these two nephews.
But there was no other way. Langge came to listen to stories every day. After all, it was his grandmother's promise. Meng Qi knew that Song loved her more than her nephew, but this was only on the surface. She was just the heir and the youngest, and there were few girls in the Meng family. In addition, she and Song had the same birthday, etc. Wang also often taught her that she must not be too petty. If she displeased Song, she would not be so comfortable in the Meng family.
Meng Qi understood this logic, so even though she was unhappy, she didn't say anything when Lang Ge came to listen to her story.
"If you want to tell Brother Lang a story, go to the west room." Meng Qi said, got off the kang, squatted beside Yue Ge'er, and stretched out her hands to pull Yue Ge'er's chubby little face. Xu was unhappy, but she didn't dare to show it in front of Meng Shao. Yue Ge'er was not annoyed, and smiled and shook his little head with the strength of Sister Qi's hand.
"Look at the turtle. Look at the turtle."
Before Meng Qi could say anything, Langge slid down from the kang, ran to his brother in two steps, and opened his big eyes.
"Brother Yue, what did you say? Say it again for me."
"Look at the turtle, brother, look at the turtle." As he said this, he pulled Lang'er's hand and walked out.
"Sister Qi, take them out first. I'll borrow your place to ask this girl a few words," Meng Shao said gently.
Meng Qi looked at his brother, then at Su Qing standing next to him, and walked out with one of them. When he reached the door, he saw Wan Xiang coming over with a teapot. Perhaps because she was too anxious, her face turned red. When she saw Meng Qi coming out, she said with an unsteady breath:
"Fourth Miss, I saw the eldest young master and the eldest young mistress coming over, and I was afraid that there would be no one in the room to pour tea, so, so..."
"No need, take it away first." Meng Qi didn't take it to heart, but Mother Liu, who was following behind, frowned. She wanted to say something but remembered that the eldest young master didn't say a word in the room.
Wanxiang returned to the ear room with the teapot. Yuandong was ironing a bleached plain jacket with silver edges for Mengqi. It was prepared for the Autumn Review Banquet, a total of three sets of clothes.
Seeing Wanxiang looking a little absent-minded, Yuandong asked softly, "What's wrong? Why did you rush out with the teapot?"
"Oh? Oh. It was Madam Liu who asked me to go. The eldest young master and the eldest young mistress are here, and Madam Liu asked me to serve tea."
Yuan Dong did not suspect anything, perhaps because no one was around, so he did not say anything more. Wan Xiang looked out the window, feeling very nervous. What happened? Why did the eldest young master bring her in, and let the fourth young lady bring the grandson out? What was he going to do?
Several images appeared in Wanxiang's mind, and one face showed an annoyance that she herself was not aware of.
"Why are you holding the teapot instead of putting it down?" Yuandong finished ironing the clothes and wanted to hang them up. He looked up and saw Wanxiang holding the teapot and looking out the window, wondering what she was thinking.
"Is the eldest young lady here? I seem to hear her voice."
This sentence reminded Wanxiang. Yes, the eldest young lady was also in the room. What could have happened? She was really panicked.
She originally thought that after entering the Fourth Young Lady's courtyard, with Meng Qi's level of favor, Meng Shao would come to Qin Garden every few days. However, in the past two months, she had only seen Meng Shao three times, and each time she had no chance to meet him alone, let alone the countless things Wanxiang had thought about saying when they met by chance.
Moreover, Meng Shao never even glanced at her, making her feel as if he was not the same person as the man who stopped to look at her in the west house.
As soon as Wanxiang put down the teapot, she saw Ruchun waving at her from the window with a mysterious look on her face. Wanxiang really didn't want to pay attention to her, but she was afraid of being seen by Yuandong, so she found an excuse to walk out and pulled Ruchun into her room.
"I will find a chance to bring your attention to what you said. Besides, there are still more than ten days left. Why are you in such a hurry?" Wanxiang said unhappily.
It turned out that Ruchun found her yesterday and heard that the mansion was going to hold an autumn banquet. She wanted to ask Wanxiang to think of a way to get her to serve at the banquet, show her face and get reward money.
"No, Sister Wanxiang, I'm not talking about this. It's Su Qing. It seems that she has offended the young master."
"What did you say? What's going on?"
"Oh, my dear sister, you only know how to work. Didn't you see the young master called Su Qing into the house? Let me tell you, the young master and Su Qing just talked for a long time in the back room."
Wanxiang tried her best to hide her surprise. She only saw Su Qing followed Meng Shao into the main room, and she didn't know that the two had been talking in the back room for a long time. What was going on? Could it be? Wanxiang didn't dare to think about it anymore. Although in her eyes Su Qing was just a bean sprout, it seemed that this bean sprout had changed a lot.
"When did you find it so hard to speak? If you have something to say, just say it all at once. Why do you have to let people ask you questions?" Wanxiang was a little unhappy, but Ruchun didn't care. He smiled and said,
"Hehe, let me tell you, Su Qing is going to be in trouble this time. I heard that when the eldest young lady saw the eldest young master taking Su Qing over, I don't know what she said, but her eyes turned red. Now my son has sent out all the idle people. He must have done something to irritate the eldest young lady, and the eldest young master wants to punish her." His tone was full of complacency.
Wanxiang had only one thought in her mind at this moment, why didn't she have such good luck. If she could meet the prince and have a talk with him, it would be worth it even if she was scolded.
At this moment, Su Qing was completely unaware of the speculations of the people in the garden. She was just answering Meng Shao's questions carefully.