Chapter 180
Seeing that Wu's mother hadn't left yet, Shen Rang knew that Yunxi must have had a very fulfilling afternoon.
Meeting Shen Rang's gaze, Madam Wu smiled and said, "Auntie learns things very quickly, she grasps them immediately."
Shen Rang couldn't help but smile, as if Wu's mother was praising him, not Yun Xi.
He always knew that Yunxi was very smart.
Not wanting to disturb the two of them, Madam Wu said, "It's getting late, I should go back now. I'll come again tomorrow afternoon."
"Thank you, Mama Wu."
Yunxi curtsied.
It's already quite presentable.
Shen's eyes lit up.
Although he had known for a long time that Yunxi was intelligent, he never expected her to be this intelligent, making such great progress in just one afternoon.
Shen Rang's gaze was intense, and Yun Xi couldn't resist it. Her cheeks quickly turned red. Fortunately, the light was dim and the candlelight flickered, so no one could see clearly.
After Madam Wu left, Shen Rang's gaze remained undiminished in its intensity. Yun Xi said shyly, "Zi Rong, don't look at me like that... Madam Wu knew I was being put in a difficult position, so she only focused on teaching me the basics, just to put on an empty shell."
“This is already quite remarkable,” Shen Rang said with a smile. “Just this empty shell alone would take many people three to five months to learn.”
Yunxi pursed her lips and remained silent.
After she died in her previous life, her soul followed Yun Wan, watching her every move. Perhaps this could be considered... being influenced by what she saw and heard?
In any case, she is now making rapid progress in learning these empty forms, and has even started reading books to learn the fundamentals of etiquette.
However, in front of Yun Wan, Yun Xi completely concealed her true nature.
Half a month passed, and Yunxi was still standing in Liuyun Garden for an entire morning, just like before. Jixiang couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but say, "Auntie, you clearly know all those etiquette rules, why don't you let the young mistress know? What are you trying to achieve by suffering like this day after day?"
Yunxi held the "Rites of Zhou" in her hands, frowning as she painstakingly studied the obscure and difficult sentences, word by word.
After a while, Yunxi said, "Young Madam is making things difficult for me every day, not really to teach me manners."
Jixiang and Le'an exchanged a glance, both puzzled: "Auntie, what do you mean?"
Yunxi closed the book and said, "Teaching me etiquette is just a pretense. What the young mistress really wants to do is make things difficult for me. I don't know much now, I'm just an empty shell. If the young mistress is determined to find fault, she will find it. So, even if the young mistress finds out, I can't escape it. It might even cause more trouble. So, it's better to avoid trouble."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly recited a line from the *Zhou Li* (Rites of Zhou): "When bestowing merits upon concubines and wives, and when presenting merits in autumn, one must distinguish their quality and value, compare their size and price, and record and label them..."
Jixiang and Le'an exchanged a glance, both feeling helpless.
They're completely obsessed with it.
But just then, a voice suddenly rang out: "Auntie is indeed wise. It seems that the young master has placed his hopes on the wrong person."
The three people in the room, master and servant, exchanged a glance and then stood up.
“Mother Wu”.
Mrs. Wu walked into the house with a smile, curtsied to Yunxi, and as she stood up, her eyes were filled with undisguised admiration: "Auntie is very clever."
Yunxi smiled sweetly: "I've learned a few things from following the young master."
The smile in Wu's mother's eyes deepened.
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