After entering Haoye Hall, Zheng Xiu asked Minghui to serve tea, and then apologized: "The old lady and the princess are not in good health. I am sorry to let Miss Xie make a wasted trip."
Xie Yi smiled and said, "I am rude." Then she asked her maid to hold the brocade box and said, "I don't know what the second sister-in-law likes. This is my little gift."
The four brocade boxes were opened. One contained a silver fox fur handcuff, one contained a set of four-color inlaid silk handkerchiefs, one contained a set of four treasures of the study, and another contained a small pot of aged fine wine. The first two were for Zheng Xiu, the four treasures of the study were for Xue Shao, and the wine was naturally for Xue Zhi.
"Miss Xie is thoughtful." Seeing that the things were not particularly expensive, Zheng Xiu asked everyone to accept them.
Xie Yi had already heard about Zheng Xiu's background and knew that she was just a daughter of a rich family. She originally thought that it was quite beneath Xue Zhi's status to marry such a wife. But now she saw that Zheng Xiu was well-dressed, spoke gracefully, and had an open and generous attitude. She was no less than a noblewoman in Beijing.
"Second Brother Xue is not at home today?" Xie Yi asked casually.
Zheng Xiu smiled and said, "He went out to visit a friend and may not be back until the afternoon. You know him, he
is the type who can't sit still." Xie Yi also smiled and said, "Second Brother Xue was a lively person when he was little, and he loved making friends everywhere. I still remember that when he was little, he always took me everywhere to play, and when he played, he got carried away, and when he came back, he would inevitably get scolded by Uncle Xue."
Zheng Xiu didn't like what she said. Xue Zhi also said that they didn't have much friendship when they were little? Xie Yi didn't mean that.
"Did you guys visit each other a lot when you were little?"
Xie Yi said, "Our fathers were close, so we visited each other more often. Before I was ten, I could see Second Brother Xue almost every other day..." Then she seemed to suddenly realize that she was talking too much, and explained, "But that was all in the past. Later, when we got older, we visited each other less."
"Miss Xie looks so graceful and quiet now, but I didn't expect that she was so naughty at one time." Zheng Xiu smiled and motioned for her to continue.
The two were strangers to begin with, and they grew up in completely different environments. If they had anything in common, it was probably that they both knew Xue Zhi. If they didn't talk about Xue Zhi, they wouldn't have much to say.
Xie Yi started talking and told her many stories about Xue Zhi's childhood.
Zheng Xiu was also very considerate and made comments from time to time, and the two of them laughed a lot.
They both looked very happy laughing, but Minghui felt scared listening to them.
Madam was obviously unhappy. She had a smile on her face, but the smile did not reach her eyes. People who did not know her might not notice anything, but people who were with her every day would naturally notice something was wrong. Madam must be angry!
Xie Yi stayed in Haoye Hall until before lunch and then went back.
Zheng Xiu saw her off personally, and the two of them were much closer than when Xie Yi first came.
However, after Xie Yi left, the smile disappeared from Zheng Xiu's face.
Minghui and the others knew that she was in a bad mood, so they moved even more quietly, wishing they could make no sound at all.
Zheng Xiu sat by herself for a while, and then said to Bai Shu, "Go and ask someone to set lunch, Shao should be back soon."
Bai Shu responded and immediately went to prepare.
When Xue Shao came back at noon, he felt that the atmosphere in Haoye Hall was a little different. He didn't know what was different, but he just felt it was weird.
Zheng Xiu had lunch with him and asked him about his class that day.
After lunch, Xue Shao went back to the gauze cabinet to take a nap, and then returned to the front yard after his nap.
Zheng Xiu was bored alone. After Xue Shao left, the room became even quieter. She began to daydream when she was free. Finally, she asked Minghui to take the sewing basket and started sewing with the three maids.
Minghui, Fen Ge and Bai Zhu were all good at sewing. Fen Ge was especially good and her embroidery was no worse than that of the embroiderers in the mansion.
Zheng Xiu sewed absentmindedly for a while. She didn't embroider a single flower, but her fingers, as tender as spring onions, were pierced with several holes.
The three maids didn't dare to let her work anymore and persuaded her to rest.
Xue Zhi said he would be back in the afternoon, but he didn't come back until after dark, reeking of alcohol.
Zheng Xiu was already angry, and she became even angrier when she saw him drunk, and her face darkened.
Ming Hui saw that it was not good, and hurriedly helped to persuade him, "Second Master has drunk too much. He seems to be able to walk now, but he probably doesn't know what to do. Madam, please wait until tomorrow to talk to Second Master if you have anything to say." She was afraid that Zheng Xiu would take advantage of Xue Zhi's drunkenness to make trouble.
Zheng Xiu nodded, and asked the servant to help Xue Zhi go to the bathroom to wash and change clothes, and asked Bai Zhu to prepare some sobering tea.
Xue Zhi was really drunk, and he couldn't speak clearly. When he saw Zheng Xiu, he could only giggle.
The servant helped him out of the bathroom and sat down beside the bed. Zheng Xiu took the sobering tea and fed it to him.
He smacked his lips and said, "Good wine, good wine." Then he leaned back and fell on the bed with a thump.
Zheng Xiu frowned and said to the servant, "Second Master is still injured, why let him drink so much?"
The servant was innocent, and said, "I have already persuaded Second Master, but those who are good friends with Second Master did persuade him to drink a little fiercely. Second Master was reluctant at first, and then he drank too much, so I couldn't persuade him anymore..."
Xue Zhi's temper really made him not listen to ordinary people. Zheng Xiu let the servant go.
She took off Xue Zhi's shoes, lifted his legs back to the bed, checked his wounds, and covered him with a quilt.
After all the work, Xue Zhi was snoring.
Zheng Xiu was angry and helpless, she wanted to rush over and give him two big slaps while he was drunk.
Of course, she just thought about it, she went to wash up with a gloomy face, and went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Zheng Xiu was sleeping soundly, but she felt a rustling in her ears, and something was moving on her body...
She opened her eyes and saw that Xue Zhi was burying his head in her chest...
"Azhi, what are you doing?" Zheng Xiu exclaimed, reaching out to push Xue Zhi.
But Xue Zhi's body was like a mountain, and he was not moved at all.
He heard that she woke up, and he touched her lips with a smell of alcohol.
Zheng Xiu had no way to avoid it, and was kissed by him.
There was a smell of alcohol between her lips and teeth. Xue Zhi even stuck out his tongue and just as he licked her lips, she turned her head away.
"If you do this again, I'm going to get angry!"
Xue Zhi didn't know whether he was really drunk or pretending to be drunk. He tilted his head back and said pitifully with a low nasal voice: "Ah Xiu, I feel uncomfortable."
Zheng Xiu tried to push him again, "You get up first."
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