Chapter 634 Apology (Part 2)
"No, no!" Qin Ge'er and Shen Ge'er said in unison, "We are fine!" Their tone was a little anxious.
Master Pang looked at the two of them in confusion for a while, and seeing that they were indeed squatting there in a proper manner as he had said, he nodded with satisfaction.
At three quarters past five in the morning, Jiange'er came out of Xiumu Courtyard and went to Manager Bai.
"Butler Bai, Butler Bai, what are you most afraid of?"
His eyes sparkled and he looked very cute. Manager Bai couldn't help but smile: "Sixth Young Master, what can I do for you?"
"No, no!" Jiange waved his hands with a smile, "I am most afraid of moths. So I want to ask what is Bai afraid of the most?"
The childish talk made Manager Bai laugh.
He was discussing something with the chief stewards of the Office and the Office of Repayment - every July, the chief managers of the Xu Mansion had to return to the mansion to settle accounts. In addition to urging the stewards of the Office to settle the accounts for half a year in a timely manner, Chief Steward Bai also had to work with the stewards of the Office of Repayment to arrange the food, lodging and travel of these chief managers.
Despite this, Manager Bai thought for a moment and said, "When I was a kid, I was most afraid of spiders. I was afraid of being entangled in their webs and being stuck like a moth!"
Jian'er was overjoyed. He thanked Mr. Bai with a smile and ran towards the inner courtyard.
Manager Bai smiled as he watched his cheerful figure disappear on the corridor, then turned around and went back into the house.
Just as Qin'er entered the Chuihua Gate, Chen'er came out from behind a pomegranate tree nearby.
"Did you find out?" He looked anxious. "What is Chief Bai afraid of?"
"Afraid of spiders!" said Jiange'er proudly.
Chen Geer breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. There are a lot of spiders in the back garden."
Jianger whispered to him, "I have to trace the red characters this afternoon, remember to take some yellow hairy kids with you to catch spiders."
"Don't worry!" Chen Ge'er straightened up. "I'll bring my enamel box with me and fill it with everything. I don't believe he won't be afraid!"
The next day, Master Pang walked among the children who were squatting in horse stance as usual.
No matter whether it was the oldest Huang Xiaomao or the youngest Ge Shaoye, they all had serious expressions, steady postures, and were all very organized.
He couldn't help but nodded secretly.
He took the teacup handed to him by the waiter and was about to sit down happily.
The servant beside him suddenly cried out in surprise.
Master Pang turned around as fast as lightning.
On the black lacquered armchair, there were a dozen spiders the size of fingernails crawling around.
Why are there so many spiders suddenly?
Master Pang frowned, waved his sleeves, and swept all the spiders to the ground. He sat down steadily, picked up the tea lid, gently brushed the tea leaves floating on the surface, and took a sip.
It has a emerald green color, rich aroma, and is sweet and refreshing.
It is worthy of being called the West Lake Longjing of Shanggong.
In fact, although the Marquis looked stern and awe-inspiring, he was actually very generous and treated him with great respect. Otherwise, he was a commoner without any official title, who taught the young master martial arts in the mansion to make a living, and when the palace rewarded him with tea, he would have been given a bag of it.
He taught the Sixth Young Master well, which was his way of repaying the kindness of Master Lin and Master Hou.
Thinking of this, Master Pang narrowed his eyes slightly.
But in the eyes of someone who is careful, it becomes an expression of great enjoyment.
The corners of the eyes of Jinger and Shener met. Jinger nodded to Shener.
In the evening, Master Pang and the security guard who was good at internal martial arts whom he had just met returned to Xiumuyuan after getting a little drunk.
The moon was shining brightly and the breeze was blowing gently. He fell down on the bed.
Something fleshy was squirming on his leg.
He was startled and sat up quickly, and saw several mice crawling out of the quilt.
"What's going on?" Master Pang shouted to the servant.
A servant was carrying a wooden bucket full of water when he came in. He saw a mouse crawling up to him. He screamed and the bucket of water spilled all over the floor.
The two men searched for mice in the middle of the night, and fortunately, apart from the few mice that escaped, they did not find any rat nests.
The house was newly built and still a little wild. There were sweets in the house. The mice might have smelled the food and came to steal it.
Master Pang heaved a sigh of relief, washed up hastily and went to bed. The next day, he got up before dawn, washed his face with cold water, and regained his original spirit.
When I returned to the house, I found cockroaches all over the house.
June is the month when insects come out.
Master Pang asked the servant to ask for some realgar oil from Manager Bai, which was placed in front of and behind the house.
"What should we do?" The two brothers sat on the bluestone steps with their chins in their hands. Brother Chen looked at Brother Qin eagerly, "Master Pang is not afraid of anything!"
Jiange'er hadn't thought of it either. He said with a bitter face: "Let me think about it!"
Brother Shen didn't dare to say anything, staring at the camphor tree beside him in boredom.
Eleventh Lady's gentle voice came to my ears: "Why don't you two take a nap in the house? What are you doing here?"
"Mom!" Jiange'er's heart tensed up, and as if to hide something, he threw himself into Shiyi Niang's arms exaggeratedly, "It's hot in the room, we can't sleep!"
Chen Ge'er was startled when he heard this, and immediately ran over to hug Shiyi Niang's arm: "Fourth Aunt, the weather is so hot!"
Eleventh Lady smiled as she held the two children in her arms, and told Amber behind her, "Ask the servant to bring another piece of ice to Jing'er's room!" Then she took Jing'er and Shen'er's hands and led them into the room, "Hurry up and take a nap, or you won't have the energy to trace the red ink in the afternoon!"
The two of them nodded like pecking at rice.
Denghua came over in a hurry and said, "Madam, the Marquis of Weibei has passed away suddenly. The Marquis asked me to come and inform you. Please change your clothes and go over to see him. The Marquis has already passed away."
Eleventh Lady was very surprised: "When did it happen? How did he get there?"
The two families lived next door to each other. When the Marquis of Weibei passed away, they had to build a mourning tent and change the white curtains. At least some noise should have been heard. Not only did they receive the news of his death without any warning, but during the Dragon Boat Festival, the Marquis of Weibei also invited Xu Lingyi to drink with him. When Xu Lingyi came back, he said, "Old people are always the wisest." "The office did not receive any news of his death." Denghua was very smart and spoke eloquently, "It was the servant of the Marquis of Weibei who sent the news. From the tone of voice, the Marquis of Weibei and the Lord were having lunch together, and the Marquis of Weibei suddenly fell on the table. When the doctor arrived, he had already died."
In other words, he just died.
Logically, when someone in the family dies, they should choose an auspicious day to report the death. However, their family and the Lin family are close neighbors and relatives, so it is understandable that the Lin family came to report the death to them in advance.
Eleventh Lady thought about it, and asked Hongwen and Ajin to take care of Jin'er and Qian'er. She went into the house to change into a light blue jacket with cloud patterns, took off her pearl hairpins, reported to the lady dowager, and took Amber to the Weibei Marquis' Mansion.
The Lin family had just started to erect the mourning shed and hang up the white banner.
Grandma Lin's personal mother was waiting for her at the hanging flower gate. As soon as her carriage stopped, the mother came forward and helped Shiyi Niang get off the carriage, whispering, "Our grandmother asked Madam to stay in the small flower hall for a while!"
Shiyi Niang was secretly surprised to see that the mother had not changed her clothes yet. When they arrived at the small flower hall, the maid had just served tea and snacks when Mrs. Lin rushed in like a gust of wind.
"Finally you're here. Just in time to help me suppress the turmoil." Her face was very bad, and she didn't change her clothes. She pulled Shiyi Niang to Mrs. Lin's room, "Dad went there when he was having lunch with the prince. My brothers-in-law insisted that Dad was angry with the prince to death." As she spoke, her eyes turned red, "A few people are making a fuss in front!"
Eleventh Lady was shocked: "How could this happen?"
Grandma Lin said angrily: "It would be great if you can pull the prince down, but if you can't, you have to splash dirty water all over us!"
This was the Lin family's internal affairs, but Xu Lingyi had asked the servant to bring a letter for her to come over, so he must have had a plan.
Eleventh Lady calmed down and went into Mrs. Lin's inner room with Mrs. Lin.
…At the beginning of the month of Hai, Eleventh Lady and Xu Lingyi returned from the Weibei Marquis’ Mansion.
"I finally understand what it means to confuse right and wrong, to make up stories, to talk nonsense, and to be rude and unreasonable!" Eleventh Lady was a lawyer in her previous life, but when she thought of Grandma Lin and her sisters-in-law just now, she couldn't help but sigh.
How could Xu Lingyi not know this?
"There is an uncle between us and Grandma Lin." He smiled bitterly, "Besides, Grandma Lin and the others are being reasonable. They have to help us no matter what."
This is good for both Sister Zhen and the Xu family.
Eleventh Lady asked, "Can we still make it tomorrow?"
"It depends on the situation!" Xu Lingyi said, "We have already made our position clear." He added, "The Lin family still has the Madam! The Madam will never let the family get into chaos and become a laughing stock!"
Eleventh Lady nodded and went to see Jiang'er.
Jian'er had rested long ago. Although Ah Jin was fanning him, he was still sweating profusely.
Eleventh Lady wiped the sweat off Jiange'er's face, kissed him on the little face, and then went back to the house.
"Is Jian'er asleep?" Xu Lingyi came out of the clean room, having changed into a shirt made of Shujiang Sansuo cloth. "How is his study these days?"
"It's only been three or four months." Eleventh Lady laughed, "You are too impatient!"
Xu Lingyi also smiled and took the fan: "Go to sleep! It's hot. I'll fan you!"
"My Lord, you are tired after a day of work," Eleventh Lady smiled and took the fan from his hand, "Let me fan you!"
Xu Lingyi answered her: "Stop talking so much and go to sleep!"
The cool breeze carrying ice cubes blew on Shiyi Niang's body. Shiyi Niang turned over, held Xu Lingyi's hand, closed her eyes, and thought about whether she should ask Mr. Zhao about Jian'er's homework tomorrow. She soon fell asleep.
Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes.
In the next few days, Shiyi Niang and Xu Lingyi were busy with the Lin family's affairs. Three days later, the Lin family reported a death. But Mrs. Lin was unable to control her sons. The sons acted independently, and the house was in a mess. The maid who served tea was asked to sweep the floor, and the one who knocked the cloud board was asked to welcome guests... Those who came to mourn saw that something was wrong, some of them burned incense in front of the coffin and went home, and some who were familiar with the Xu family turned around and settled in the Xu family. Xu Lingyi took Xu Sizhen to entertain guests in the outer courtyard, and Shiyi Niang settled the female relatives in the inner courtyard and listened to them gossiping about the Lin family.
Meanwhile, the Shao family came to Beijing to visit Xu Lingyi for the funeral. Hui Jieer brought the shoes and socks that Zhen Jieer had made for the Madam, Shiyi Niang, and others to greet Shiyi Niang. It was not until the seventh day after the death of Weibei Marquis that the couple finally settled down.
Grandma Lin came to thank them in person with gifts: "Thanks to the help of Lord Hou and you! I should thank you very much. But now my family has to observe mourning, so I can only talk about it after the mourning period is over."
"We are all relatives now, so please don't be polite to me, sister."
The two talked for a while and went to pay their respects to the lady. Mrs. Lin couldn't stay for long, so Shiyi Niang sent her to the Chuihua Gate.
Chang'an came running over breathlessly, not caring about Shiyi Niang seeing off the guests, and shouted, "Madam, please go and see Chun! Master Pang is going to beat the Sixth and Seventh Young Masters!"
Everyone felt that the plot was a bit dragged out, so I changed the manuscript temporarily and rewrote it, so the update was late.
terribly sorry!
O(∩_∩）OpS: The additional updates will be posted even later, so please get up tomorrow morning and read them!