The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 224 Prelude
It is afternoon.

Because of that chance encounter at night, Xing Xiuyan was fidgeting in the house, when Xiujue outside exclaimed: "Ah, why is auntie here? Coincidentally, sister Siqi is not at home, and she followed the girl to the old lady's courtyard..."

"I'm not looking for Siqi."

A woman with a rough voice replied, "Miss Biao is at home?"

"Miss Biao?"

Xiuju seemed a little surprised, and paused for a while before answering: "Miss Xing is at home. When she came back from my wife in the morning, she said that she was not feeling well, so she didn't go to the old lady's courtyard."

"Then you are busy, I'll go and see Miss Xing."

While talking, the visitor went into the main room and found Xing Xiuyan's west room.

This is a middle-aged woman who is nearly forty years old, she is quite rich, with short and thick fingers, it is obvious that she does not usually do much work.

After entering the door, she first put the bundle in her hand on the table, and then said all blessings to Xing Xiuyan with a smile: "Girl, my wife specially sent me here to help you dress up."

As she spoke, she glanced left and right, and said in amazement, "Why isn't there even a mirror in this room?"

"I'm always in the second sister's house..."

Just as Xing Xiuyan was about to explain, the woman raised her voice and said, "Embroidered tangerines, embroidered oranges, quickly find a vanity mirror for Miss Xing!"

Seeing this domineering posture, Xing Xiuyan knew that she must be the powerful master next to her aunt, so she hurriedly bowed and said respectfully, "May I ask what your name is?"

The woman accepted Xing Xiuyan's gift carelessly, and said triumphantly: "It's no wonder that the girl doesn't recognize me. I'm really an old man of the Xing family. When I married my wife into this mansion, there was no girl at that time. My wife is only fifteen, and seventeen or eighteen years have passed in a flash."

"At that time, the Xing family was not what it is now. Grandpa bought several prosperous shops, and there was a small Zhuangzi outside the city. Unexpectedly, in a few years, most of them were defeated by uncle..."

"When the uncle was going to do business in the south, I was not optimistic about coming. Look, let me be sure of this? It's only been a few years since I went there, and even my money has been wiped out!"

"If I had stayed in the capital back then, my wife would have helped take care of me..."

She thought about it for a long time, except that she was from the Xing family and was Mrs. Xing's dowry family, and she didn't say anything clearly about her name and errand.

At this time, Xiuju came in with a mercury mirror with a bowl-sized mouth, and the woman snatched it, unfolding the stand and placing it on the table, while complaining: "Why did you get such a small one?"

"It's used by my sister Siqi and me. The one in the girl's room is bigger, but it's set on the dresser."

"Forget it, I'm going to work on you."

The woman sent Xiuju away, turned around and untied the burden layer by layer, and at the same time said with a smile: "Girl, don't feel wronged, the front is the front, and the back is the back. After marrying into the Jiao family, there will be you What a great day!"

"His family is a little poor in terms of family background, but Uncle Jiao is in charge of so many big businesses that make money in the Ministry of Industry. If you just show it through your fingers, it will be enough for the family to chew for several lifetimes!"

As she spoke, she took out a goose-yellow floral dress from her bag, carefully put it aside, then took out a wooden box engraved with the cloud pattern of the five blessings, and pushed it in front of Xing Xiuyan like a treasure, exaggerating: " Take a quick look, girl, this is you, even if the two girls go on a blind date, the wife may not be willing!"

Xing Xiuyan vaguely guessed something, and was rather repulsed by the box, but under the urging of the woman, she could only pretend to be surprised and opened the lid, and as expected, there was a set of jeweled head and face jewelry inside.

Xing Xiuyan sighed secretly, but said in his mouth: "This, how did this happen?"

"There is nothing wrong with it, as long as the girl can find a good home, my wife and us old people who come from the Xing family can rest assured." The woman said the first half of the sentence warmly, but the second half changed the subject: " It’s just that girl, be careful, if it’s broken, I’ll take it back and it won’t be easy to deal with.”

Xing Xiuyan had expected that it would be a temporary loan, so she was not disappointed.

Just let the woman arrange it, put gold, jade, pearls, emeralds, and beautiful long skirts on her body one by one.

During the period, the earrings sounded pleasing to the ear, but it fell on Xing Xiuyan's ears, but it seemed to be closed like shackles; because the long skirt was Mrs. Xing's old thing, it looked a little fat and loose on the body, but Xing Xiuyan felt as if her throat was tightly strangled , It is difficult to even breathe freely.

When the dress was almost done, the woman looked back and forth at her favorite work, and Miss Lian Dao would definitely be able to 'open the flag' this time.

Immediately, she confessed again: "My wife told you to wait until Uncle Jiao returns late before intercepting him. There is an old saying that wine is a sex matchmaker, and it is also said that wine is strong and cowardly. This man, once he feeds too many cats Urine, the top can't control the bottom..."

"Mother, mother!"

Just as he was talking, he heard the outside chess player yelling: "Come out, I have something to tell you!"

But it turns out that this woman is the chess player's mother, Wang Shi.

"What kind of monster is this dead girl?"

Mrs. Wang grumbled, smiled at Xing Xiuyan, "Miss, wait here first, I'll go out and talk to her and I'll be back."

Before Xing Xiuyan agreed, she had already raised the curtain and went to the outside room.

Just about to ask her daughter what's the matter, but was dragged out of the door by Siqi.

"mother!"

When he got to the corridor of the East Wing, Siqi said with a serious face: "Tell me honestly, what is Madam sending you this time?"

"You girl, are you going to interrogate your mother?!"

Wang's eyes widened, and she said angrily: "You don't have to worry about what your mother does, let alone your wife's affairs, you just need to take good care of the second lady!"

With that said, he was about to turn back into the house.

"mother!"

Siqi took a few steps to catch up with his long legs, and blocked Wang's way: "I beg you, just tell me the truth this time!"

"What do you say, it seems like your mother has lied to you?"

Wang's face showed some annoyance, but he still said in a perfunctory way: "What the wife ordered has nothing to do with you, you just don't need to inquire about it—could mother still harm you?"

As he said that, he wanted to bypass his daughter.

"mother!"

Seeing this, Siqi became more and more sure that Mrs. Xing was going to make a big move, and seeing his mother's attitude of not saying anything, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and simply said in Wang's ear: "I have already lost my body to that Jiao Shun."

"what?!"

Mrs. Wang jumped three feet high, and didn't care about Xing Xiuyan any more, so she hurriedly dragged her daughter to a secluded place to ask what happened.

"What's there to say."

Siqi stiffened his neck, and said coldly: "The wife promised to marry the second young lady to him in person, and I often exchanged messages, and I treated him like a son-in-law, so naturally..."

"You girl is so confused!"

Wang said angrily: "If people find out about this, how will you live in the future?!"

Si Qi said straightforwardly: "So my daughter can only marry the second girl! Mother, tell me honestly, does the wife want Miss Biao to do something out of the ordinary?!"

After a pause, seeing Mrs. Wang groaning silently, she added: "This is related to your daughter's lifelong event, you must never keep it a secret!"

"There is such a thing..."

Wrinkles appeared on Mrs. Wang's chubby face, and she was about to tell Mrs. Xing's plan in a hesitant manner, but suddenly she slapped her thigh with bright eyes, and shouted happily: "Yes! I beg my wife to let you be Xing Isn't the girl's dowry done?!"

"Since you have taken the lead, it's easy for her to settle down with a poor household. Whoever decides when she gets to Jiao's house may have the final say!"

The more she talked, the more excited she became, and Wang even praised her daughter again: "You girl has a better vision than your mother, and you have climbed the tall branch of Mr. Jiao without making a sound, and it is not in vain that you have such a top-notch body! "

Siqi knew his mother was a snobbish person early on, but he never expected that Wang would scold him for being stupid, turn around and covet Jiao Shun's future and wealth, praising himself for his foresight.

Siqi, who was in trouble for a while, didn't know what to say.

However, Wang's mind was wide open at this time. From the relationship between her own daughter and Jiao Shun, she thought of the special encounter of Qin Xian and his wife recently, so she suddenly changed her face and said, "No wonder your second uncle got a job, even your aunt got it. Uncle Jiao flattered us by saying that he was going to be the night watchman of Bieyuan, so it turned out to be biased towards the interests of our family!"

"When you see Uncle Jiao again, be sure to tell him clearly. If you have any good errands, you can wait for your father to come back. It will be cheaper..."

"mother!"

Hearing what she said became more and more shameful, Siqi stomped his feet anxiously: "What are you talking about?! Our girl has already asked Uncle Jiao, and he said that if the wife breaks her promise and becomes fat, she would rather tear her face than marry Miss Xing."

After thinking about it, she added: "Don't tell your wife this, or I will have no hope here!"

"Of course I know that!"

Because she is a greedy one, Wang knows better that the Biao Miss and the Second Miss are fake, only the daughter who climbed Gao Zhi'er is the real one.

At the moment, he no longer concealed the fact that the Xing family forced Xing Xiuyan to "coincidentally meet" Jiao Shun. He explained everything in detail, and then reminded: "I see what this means, it may not be as simple as a coincidence, it may be to lure that Uncle Jiao has no virtue after drinking..."

"He doesn't drink, and he may not have any virtue!"

Siqi snorted, and said to Wang: "Mother, this matter must not be allowed, or you try to dissuade her, let her know the difficulty and..."

"Persuasion cannot be persuaded, let alone I dare not persuade!"

But Mrs. Wang immediately shook her head and said: "Otherwise, let the wife know, and we can still have our family? Besides, I see that the cousin girl is also reluctant, and she has been a few times before, so the wife specially sent me here—— But after all, she is dependent on others, and the whole family depends on the wife for food and clothing, so she will never dare to disobey the wife's wishes."

Hearing the words, Si Qi paced back and forth a few times, and said decisively: "Then I'll break the matter up, so Miss Biao can have an explanation!"

"No! You can't go!"

Seeing her daughter's enthusiasm, Mrs. Wang became wise in a hurry: "If you are going, you will definitely implicate the second lady. You have to find someone who is not afraid of taking responsibility to come forward!"

Not afraid of taking responsibility?
Someone suddenly popped up in Siqi's mind.

(End of this chapter)