Chapter 132 I'm Interested
Seeing this, Mother Sun looked at Mei Xiaoniang with a warning look.
Mei Xiaoniang's eyes were evasive as she staggered to her feet and followed Cuizhi towards the main hall.
When Xie Rongying walked into the main hall, Old Mrs. Xie was being helped by Dong Yu to sit down in the main seat.
"Grandma." Xie Rongying bowed.
After Old Madam Xie sat down, she knelt on the ground when she saw Mei Xiaoniang walk in, and looked at Xie Rongying in confusion: "Rong'er, what are you doing?"
"Grandma, I have something to ask her." Xie Rongying walked over to Old Lady Xie, sat down, and asked again, "Didn't Father come back last night?"
Mrs. Xie looked at Mother Sun.
Mother Sun immediately responded, "The master didn't come back last night, but the second master did come back later in the night."
"Father rarely comes home recently?" Xie Rongying asked with a frown.
Madam Sun quickly said, "I didn't return home last night. Because of Mei Xiaoniang's matter, I originally wanted to wait for the master to come back and ask him what to do with Mei Xiaoniang. But when I went to the master's yard, I found out that the master hadn't returned."
Xie Rongying's gaze fell on Mei Xiaoniang again.
Wen Zi tried her best to find out what happened between her parents from the people in the Xie family. What did she want to do?
Is he trying to deal with her mother or her father?
"Miss, can I talk to you alone?" Mei Xiaoniang looked at Old Lady Xie timidly and said cautiously.
"How dare you!" Mother Sun scolded him immediately, "It's not even your turn to speak here!"
Instead, Mrs. Xie sighed and said, "Rong'er, since you want to ask, then take her to the ear room and ask her carefully."
"Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam." Mei Xiaoniang has always known that Madam Xie is a kind-hearted person. In all these years in the Xie family, she has never heard of her being harsh to anyone.
Even a concubine like her, who had not been looked at by Xie Jing for a long time, received the same amount of reward from the old lady every year.
Xie Rongying's gaze lingered on Grandma Sun for a moment before she said, "Then Grandma, please have breakfast first."
As he spoke, Xie Rongying stood up and walked towards the ear room on the left.
Seeing this, Mei Xiaoniang stood up and followed.
After the hall returned to silence, Madam Sun walked over to Old Lady Xie and whispered, "Old Madam, why did you let that bitch be alone with the young lady? She was the first one to arrive at the mansion, and she really knew about what happened between the master and the mistress."
"Rongying is already married, why are we still hiding her parents' affairs?" Old Mrs. Xie said calmly.
Mother Sun sighed, "You're right. The girl is already married, so there's no need to hide it. Besides, you raised her, and you've seen a lot of things since she was a child."
When Wei Xiaoniang walked into the side room and saw Xie Rongying sitting down, she knelt down and said pleadingly, "Miss, you are married now, you should know that we women have no choice. I have been working hard at home all these years, but you also know how many women there are in the master's harem."
"Although I have never been harsh on you, I am still a human being. How could I possibly live as a widow in that courtyard?"
Xie Rongying looked at Mei Xiaoniang, who knelt down and began to talk about how difficult her life was, and smiled faintly: "So this is your reason for committing adultery?"
Mei Xiaoniang was stunned.
"Grandmother is so kind. If you really want to leave the Xie family, won't you let me go?" Xie Rongying said indifferently, "On the one hand, you enjoy the wealth of the Xie family, and on the other hand, you feel like a widow. Do you take all the good things for yourself?"
"No, Miss, I..." Mei Xiaoniang wanted to explain, but when she looked at Xie Rongying's cold eyes, she swallowed the words back.
Xie Rongying chuckled: "Since you want to talk to me alone, don't waste time. Also, I have to remind you, tell me what you want to know, don't say things that you think I'm interested in."
After hearing this, Mei Xiaoniang's desire to take a shortcut was suppressed.
"You should know what I want to hear and what I don't want to hear."
Mei Xiaoniang naturally knew that what Xie Rongying wanted to hear was who the man she had an affair with was and what he asked her.
Instead of what she had just said about Xie Jing and Yan in the courtyard.
"Song Wenyou and I have been in love for a long time." Mei Xiaoniang said with a hint of melancholy in her eyes. "He owns a rouge shop in the east of the city. Last year, my maid bought rouge there. I loved it, and we got to know him. He was always so considerate and kind to me, and I couldn't control myself during the time we met."
Xie Rongying listened to this romantic story without any emotion, just as she had no emotion towards matters between men and women.
"This whole year, I've had a very good relationship with him. He was curious about the affairs between the Master and the Madam at the beginning of the month. I initially thought he was just asking casually and didn't take it seriously. He just told me something that everyone in the mansion knew."
"But later, as his questions became more and more detailed, I began to become suspicious and questioned him about why he was asking questions he shouldn't have."
"After I repeatedly asked him, he finally told me."
Xie Rongying raised her eyes and looked at Mei Xiaoniang, and there was a hint of interest in her eyes.
"He said a woman gave him some silver and asked him to find out about the master and his wife from me. She said she would give him another sum of silver after he succeeded."
"After it's done?" Xie Rongying raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean by 'after it's done'?"
"From Song Wenyou's tone, I can tell that it's someone hostile to the Master who wants to place a woman around him." Mei Xiaoniang straightened her back the more she spoke. "I know what kind of man the Master is, so I thought it wouldn't matter if I told Song Wenyou about him and his wife, because the Master wouldn't be interested in women arranged by outsiders."
"After all, even the Madam couldn't win the Master's heart." She blurted out this sentence and immediately looked at Xie Rongying's expression: "Miss, I was wrong..."
"Go on." Xie Rongying seemed not at all moved by Mei Xiaoniang's words.
Upon hearing this, Mei Xiaoniang stared at Xie Rongying without blinking, until she truly felt that Xie Rongying did not show any sign of anger.
Then she continued, "So I told Song Wenyou what happened between the master and the lady, and I think Song Wenyou also told that woman what I said."
"What I mean is, there might be a woman who appears by my father's side in the future." Xie Rongying said nonchalantly, "That woman will more or less have my mother's personality and catch my father's eye?"
"That's roughly it." Mei Xiaoniang said.
Xie Rongying raised her red lips slightly: "So it's a honey trap."
It’s just a pity that it’s probably not possible to emulate her mother.
If her father really cared about her mother, how could he have let her live in a nunnery for so many years?
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