An old lady and two aunts were standing in front of her, watching a seven or eight-year-old girl grabbing cakes and eating them.
She seemed to like the candy and cakes sent from their house very much, a piece of candy, a piece of cake, and a big mouthful of hot soup and tea. Although they ate it wildly, they couldn't help but want to look at it.
Looking at the little girl's bulging cheeks and narrowed eyes, I felt a strange sense of satisfaction in my heart.
Seeing that both plates of pastries had been eaten, and the little girl still looked like she was still unsatisfied, the old lady ordered her servants to bring two more plates.
"No!" The little girl suddenly stopped the servant who was about to leave. She was embarrassed, but actually said to Mrs. Yu very well:
"If possible, can you give me a stack of side dishes and a bowl of clear soup noodles?"
I set off early this morning, arrived in Longyang and waited for another noon. Now it was almost dinner time. Xu Yue, who had not eaten for almost two meals, felt that the pastries in front of her could no longer satisfy her clamoring stomach.
Seeing that she didn't seem to be faking it, Mrs. Yu glanced at her belly again. Although she had already put in two plates of cakes, she seemed to have eaten nothing.
However, I also remembered that Xu Yue and his party had arrived early, and they probably didn't have much in their stomachs, so they simply ordered that the evening food be served in advance, and they also had a meal with Xu Yue.
Xu Yue found that the food in the Yan family did not seem to be very good. The women's evening meal only consisted of a bowl of porridge, a stack of pickles, and a pot of chicken soup.
This pot of chicken soup was probably specially made to entertain her.
But if you look closely, you can see that the porridge is thin and the pickles are mixed with minced meat. These two points alone have surpassed many people.
Xu Yue was hungry. If she wasn't hungry, she would rather not eat this meal with her appetite developed by the family's indulgence in the past few months.
The soy sauce pork was so salty that she had to drink a pot of water, and the chicken soup was so fishy that she felt dizzy. Fortunately, she still had a bowl of thin porridge to fill her stomach. Otherwise, it would be better to continue eating pastries. At least the taste was normal.
But seeing the three ladies eating with gusto, Xu Yue couldn't help but blame herself. After only a few days of good times, she started to be poor and fastidious.
After eating and drinking, there seemed to be nothing to do. The huge age gap made it impossible for Xu Yue to communicate with the three ladies.
She asked how many students there usually were in the academy, and the ladies replied: "We usually do some needlework for fun, and occasionally we go out for an outing when the weather is fine."
She asked again, what kind of person is Mr. Confucianism of your Yan family?
The ladies replied: "My sons are studying in the academy, and my daughters are weaving at home and learning to be female workers."
Xu Yue: Destroy it, we can’t talk today!
It was getting dark, and the servants came in to light the lamps. Mrs. Yu was old and could not support Xu Yue's strong energy, so she got up and said goodbye and went back to the house to sleep.
The two ladies were left looking at each other, and finally they both looked at Xu Yue.
The two asked her if she dared to sleep alone. If she was afraid, she could go back to the room with them to sleep.
Xu Yue shook her head wildly. The two ladies should have taken a bath for a long time. She couldn't accept the smell under the strong fragrance.
Seeing that she refused, the two planned to take her to the guest room and ask the maid to accompany her.
Xu Yue opened her eyes wide and said weakly: "Madam, just send me to find my father."
"I'm afraid..." It's not good, right?
The two ladies looked at each other, hesitantly.
The men were discussing things in the study, and there was no news whether the talks were successful or not, so they didn't dare to go over and disturb them.
Xu Yue immediately used the child's trump card and fell to the ground crying!
"I want daddy, I want daddy! I want daddy!"
The floor of Yan's house was polished to a shine. Xu Yue rolled twice on the floor, but her clothes were not dirty at all.
The two ladies were immediately panicked. They didn't expect that the little girl who was so well-behaved just now could actually act like this.
However, when it is dark and in a strange place, most children will cry out of fear.
The two ladies looked at Xu Yue who was lying on the ground with understanding, coaxed her to get up, and took her to find Xu Da.
Xu Yue immediately stopped howling, nodded, and returned to her obedient appearance.
The two ladies shook their heads helplessly and led her to Yan Gu's courtyard anxiously.
Before he could let the servants in to make an announcement, the people in the room seemed to have clairvoyance, and he sent He out to pick them up.
"Thank you two ladies for the hospitality." Xu Yue smiled at the two of them and followed He Zeng into the courtyard.
The two ladies smiled back at her, turned and left.
Xu Yue watched them go away until they disappeared, then she looked back and asked He Zeng:
"Dad, have you eaten?"
He Zeng nodded, "We ate in the study. They stayed in there and didn't come out all afternoon."
"Oh, by the way, young lady, Yan Daru, whom you have longed for, is here!" He Zeng bent down and came to Xu Yue's ear with a very strange posture and said excitedly.
Xu Yueyi raised her eyebrows, "Really?"
He Zeng nodded, then led Xu Yue to a corner of the yard, pointed to the study room not far ahead, with bright lights and closed door, and said:
"But this serious little old man is only as tall as my shoulders, but he has such an imposing manner that I dare not hum in front of him."
"So fierce?" Xu Yue's mind automatically flashed to her old-fashioned and serious research mentor in her previous life.
He Zeng nodded fiercely, "He's not an easy old man to get along with. The first thing he did when he entered the house was to scold our master in a weird way."
"I was guarding the door outside, and I could hear his voice. Although I couldn't understand what he said in a polite manner, he definitely didn't say anything nice."
Xu Yue's heart suddenly rose, and she asked worriedly: "Is Dad okay?"
He Zeng shook his head, he couldn't enter the house, and he didn't know.
But they are all still in the house, so they should be fine, right?
Just as he was guessing, there was suddenly a louder and fiercer noise in the house.
Xu Yue and He Zeng looked at each other, and they immediately ran forward and listened to the corner.
The book boy guarding the door of the Yan family saw it and hesitated to speak, but when He Zeng's big copper eyes glared at him, he was immediately frightened and decisively chose to turn a blind eye.
The rough voice of an old and stereotyped old man came from inside the house. He Zeng said that this was the voice of Yan Daru, and gave Xu Yue a proud look that said, "Look, I'm right, it's really fierce."
Xu Yue had no time to talk to him, because she understood what Yan Daru said in the room.
As expected, he was very polite, the kind of person who cursed without using any curse words. He didn't know what his father said. Yan Daru was like a firecracker being lit and started to output like crazy.
He scolded Xu Da as Gongsun Zan's reckless lackey, and also used Fei Zhongyouhun, who was next to King Zhou, as a metaphor, saying that Gongsun Zan was the next King Zhou, and Xu Da was the one who only knew how to flatter Fei Zhongyouhun.
Xu Yue felt a little sorry for her father, but thinking that her father's daily behavior would indeed leave such a bad impression on others, these words sounded okay.
But when Yan Daru pointed at Xu Da and said that he harmed civilians, killed great scholars, insulted scholars, was not worthy of being a human being, and should drown himself in the toilet, Xu Yue immediately exploded!
