Hexi

Chapter 155
The day after Madam Bao and the others settled down, Su Shou found out about the news.

When he came back from Xia Dynasty, he bumped into Madam Su Luo and Madam Bao under the veranda, and paused in the veranda.Su Luo called "Father", and Bao Momo knelt down and called "Master", both of them looked very calm.Su Shou held his breath for half a moment before leaving with his hands behind his back.

When he returned to his room, he asked Mrs. Xu, who was waiting to change clothes, "Why is Madam Bao back?"

"I asked them to come back." Xu glanced at him, "Why, she can't come back?"

Su Shou didn't say that.

He adjusted his clothes in front of the mirror, and unconsciously glanced at a huanghuali chair next to the makeup mirror.

Mrs. Xu saw it and said, "Move this chair to Qiyuyuan? Or put it away. I asked the maids, this chair is the dowry of my sister's mother."

She just felt that Xie's dowry was still not good, as if it was being used by her, but Su Shou even saw the few dust on it several times, which made people feel that he put it on purpose. Here, she didn't move.Now that Madam Bao came back, Mrs. Xu respected her as Mrs. Xie's wet nurse and did not want to cause any misunderstanding.

Su Shou, however, seemed to have been exposed to some secret, with a little embarrassment at the base of his ears, he glanced at her and said, "Move it if you want, what's the fuss."

It seems that Mrs. Xu is talking too much!
I handed him the purse, and let him hang it by himself, he was too lazy to continue to wait.

Su Shou was slapped in the face without being soft or hard, and there was nothing he could do about her, so he hung up his purse and told You Chun'er to prepare a horse and go to Tiangongfang.

Going out the door to the right, there is a pomegranate tree planted in the corner of the yard, which is symmetrical with the jujube tree on the other side.Su Shou no longer remembered when the pomegranate tree was planted, but the tree was there as long as he remembered, because it was the main courtyard, and every head of the family had lived in this courtyard.When he was young, he climbed trees and picked pomegranates.

Later, when his father passed away, he became the new head of the house, but he never paid attention to it.Of course, it may also be because he has been away for many years, and there are not many opportunities to pay attention to it.Behind the pomegranate tree is the veranda, and beyond the veranda is the hexagonal window of the main house.

The huanghuali chair has been there since they moved into the main courtyard. During Ding You's time, as long as he lived here, he could see Mrs. Xie sitting on the stool under the hexagonal window and looking outside. pomegranate tree.

After looking at it many times, the stool seems to have grown there, and it seems awkward to move it away.

What was also awkward was the moment when he saw Su Luo walking down the veranda with Madam Bao.

That girl was already similar to her mother, but now her temperament became sharper and her desolate appearance, and she was followed closely by Madam Bao who used to serve nearby all the time, made people even more suspicious that it was Mrs. Xie reappearing.

"Sir, you can mount your horse."

You Chun'er handed him the whip under the stone steps.

He took it in his hand, and was about to say something, his eyes stopped on the hem of his clothes again, "Where did you get the dim sum?"

You Chun'er looked down, brushed the hem of his clothes and said: "Earlier, the eldest girl brought some snacks from the second wife's room. When she met the younger one, she rewarded the younger one with two jujube cakes. The younger one couldn't hold back her greed, so she ate it. gone."

Su Shou glanced at him and said, "Tell Wu Zong to come and accompany me out."

You Chun'er said yes and withdrew.

Su Shou paused for a moment, then lifted his robe and got on his horse.

Soon, Wu Zong, the long follower who had been by Su Shou's side since he was a child, came over.Su Shou signaled him to get on his horse and go out.After walking for a mile, Su Shou asked him, "Second Master has been busy tracking down ghosts recently, and you are helping to deal with most of the general affairs. Is there any problem?"

Wu Zong was already an old domestic servant in his thirties, and he replied calmly: "Everything in the mansion is as usual, and all matters are assigned after consulting the second master."

Su Shou looked at the street, and said again: "It's been a long time since I heard from Xie's family, do you know what's going on with them?"

"Since his wife passed away, no one from Xie's family has ever been to Beijing, let alone the mansion." Speaking of this, Wu Zong gave him a meaningful look, "It is impossible to come to the mansion again."

Su Shou was silent.After a while, he said: "Haven't you had any contact with Sister Yao and her siblings?"

"If someone from Xie's family comes to Beijing, there will be a lot of disturbances. If there is contact, the eldest girl and the others will definitely not be so calm. There should be no small guesses. At the funeral of his wife, uncle and master did not let go If you speak harshly, you won't have any contact with anyone from the Su family."

People were coming and going on the street, and the traffic was busy, but the air lingering around the master and servant of the Su family seemed particularly dignified.

Seeing that Su Shou hadn't made a sound for a long time, Wu Zong asked, "Why did the master suddenly ask about Xie's family?"

Su Shou sighed slowly: "I always feel that sister Yao has changed a lot, but I can't figure out the reason, so I wonder if the Xie family may have secretly found her again."

Wu Zong was stunned, and then shook his head decisively: "If the eldest girl has changed because of the Xie family's visit, then she has no reason and no action. The younger one sees that the eldest girl only drinks tea and visits the house every day, looking for the second master to vent her anger. Even when I go out every day, I never go to the shop."

Su Shou did not argue with him.After walking forward for a while, he continued: "The servant of the Xie family who came to the Su family with my sister's mother back then was transferred back by Brother Li's mother. I am too lazy to talk to her and ask her to transfer back Chuang Tzu, but Mammy Bao and the others are facing the sister's mother. If they are facing her, then they are facing the Xie family. You should let people watch. Later, I will send two people to Huizhou to investigate the situation of the Xie family. .”

Wu Zong said yes.

……

When Su Luo returned to the room, Fu Sang had already entered.

"You Chun'er is going to buy something, and the girl is going to the Song family for a banquet tomorrow, do you have anything to buy?"

Su Wei asked suspiciously: "Didn't he go to Tiangong workshop with his father these few days?"

"Originally, but for some reason, the master suddenly stopped You Chuner from following and called Wu Zong instead, so You Chuner was sent to buy it."

Su Luo frowned.

Wu Zong is Su Shou's entourage, he is also a child, and he is a confidant. Since Su Shou took charge of the family, Wu Zong has been promoted step by step. Now the chief housekeeper in the mansion is his uncle Wu Chun, and he follows Su Shou. Shou is around to help with common affairs.Suddenly letting Wu Zong follow him as a follower always felt a little weird.

At this time, Mu Jin also came in: "It's strange, a huanghuali chair that has been placed in the main room all the time, my wife suddenly sent someone to bring it over."

When Su Wei heard this, she got up and went to the door, only to see a familiar chair on the porch, and after careful identification, it was the one that Mrs. Xie had put under the window.He said, "Didn't say anything?"

"My wife just said that I don't need it anymore. This is our wife's stuff. It should be sent back to see if the girl needs it. If you use it, you can keep it in the room. If you don't use it, you can put it back in the warehouse. It's easy to store it."

Su Wei stroked the back of the chair, sat down and gave it a try, and said, "Make room under the window, let's stay here."

(End of this chapter)