In the Wu Mansion, Mrs. Wu came back from outside with her eldest daughter Wu Lan and her second daughter Wu Zhu.
They went out this time to purchase dowry and see how the custom-made trousseau box was doing.
Young ladies from wealthy families start saving their dowries from the time their children are born, in order to allow their daughters to marry in a glamorous manner, have the confidence to enter their husband's family, and make their husband's family look high on them.
It's just that Mrs. Wu has been following Mr. Wu around all over the world in those years, and she has no conditions at all to purchase it. It was only after she returned to Beijing three years ago that she made urgent arrangements.
Mrs. Wu specially took the two of them on this trip because she wanted them to learn more about managing a household and taking care of accounts.
When they returned to Wu Mansion, they just sat down to rest in the Chuihua Hall when they heard that the school was busy.
Wu Zhu asked: "What's going on?"
The maid who came to serve tea came in with a teapot: "Mr. Xue and Mr. Yuan are competing with Mr. Yin who came before."
Mrs. Wu and Wu Lan Wu Zhu looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
Wu Zhu was surprised and said: "No way, our intention is so obvious, hasn't he understood it yet? Looking back, uncle, don't say that we forced away the person he recommended."
The younger sister is not at home anymore. There is no shortage of gentlemen in the Wu Mansion, and it is not possible for anyone to be the gentleman.
They stopped him openly and covertly, but the man still didn't give up. Isn't this just asking for torture?
You know, Mr. Yuan, that old man, has long been complaining that life is boring and wants to try the feeling of torturing others.
He had seen his little sister sweep away Mr. Bo Bo before, and he had enjoyed watching it. In addition, he had been abused by his little sister, so he always wanted to find someone to practice her tricks against him.
Mrs. Wu's face was full of disapproval: "Zhu'er, you are about to get married. When will you change your outspoken problem? Don't talk nonsense about the words of your elders in the future." This sounds bad to outsiders.
"Mother," Wu Zhu said in a long tone, deflecting the fire: "The eldest sister will be married first. I am not that fast. I will change it after I get married soon. Now it is better to teach the eldest sister more."
Wu Lan glared at her: "Second sister, I'm talking about you, why are you trying to blame me? It's better to drink water quickly to save you from talking nonsense."
Wu Zhu laughed loudly, stood up and took the teapot from the maid, and poured it for Mrs. Wu and Wu Lan respectively: "Yes, yes, I know that mother and eldest sister are doing it for my own good. Didn't I say that in front of you? I won't do it after I go out."
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Mrs. Wu and Wu Lan smiled and shook their heads, saying there was nothing they could do against her.
Wu Zhu remembered something, waved the maid away, and said in a lowered voice: "Mom, eldest sister, do you think Mr. Yin is a bit strange?"
The two of them were stunned, and Wu Lan asked: "Second sister, why did you say this?"
Wu Zhu thought about it carefully, frowned and said: "It's hard to say. In the past, there were some gentlemen who only had names, and there were also some who had nothing to do with wine and food, but they would pretend to be aloof, and if they were treated coldly, they would say nothing.
There was a sour smell, they must be pretending to leave so that we can keep them."
But for this Mr. Yin, everyone in the whole government said openly and secretly that for his own good, the matter of becoming a gentleman should be forgotten.
But he didn't seem to understand. He came to ask after a while, as if he would die if he didn't become Mr. Wufu.
So Wu Zhu felt that something was wrong. After explaining what she felt was wrong, she sat down and made random remarks:
"Isn't the wanted man's name Mr. Yin before? He came to the house on the same day and has the same last name. What a coincidence. Could he be a bad guy?"
Mrs. Wu and Wu Lan thought what she said made sense at first, but in the end they felt it was outrageous.
Mrs. Wu pretended to be angry: "Don't talk nonsense, that's the person recommended by your uncle."
If Mr. Yin is a bad person, doesn't this mean that the Zhou family is harming the Wu family, and if word spreads, there will be big problems.
"What happened to uncle..." Wu Zhu muttered, thinking that it was uncle who needed to be on guard more.
Their uncle has been left unchecked since the death of his grandmother, and he seems to have been let loose.
There is also the aunt who is used to being superficial and treats her little sister so badly in the back house that she almost kills her. Wu Zhu doesn't believe it at all when she says that uncle doesn't know.
Wu Lan hurriedly said: "Second sister, my surname is Yin, not Yin. Besides, the wanted order has been withdrawn, and uncle... uncle is not that kind of person."
When it came to the last sentence, Wu Lan himself couldn't say it anymore.
She was afraid that Wu Zhu would say something bad again, so she hurriedly got up and pulled someone over, saying to Mrs. Wu: "Mom, you have been tired for a day. Please rest first. I will talk to my second sister."
Mrs. Wu thought for a while and nodded in agreement. There were some things she couldn't tell her children, so it would be best for her eldest daughter to talk to her in private.
Wu Lan then took Wu Zhu out and found a quiet and uninhabited place to talk.
Don't their parents know the character of their uncles and aunts, but why don't they ever tell them? That's because they can't.
The two families are related by marriage, and in the eyes of outsiders, the bones are broken and the tendons are connected, and they have been kind to the little sister for more than ten years, and they are the mother's natal family.
Whenever the Wu family badmouths the Zhou family and even mentions the Zhou family, it will only be the Wu family that gets poked in the spine and scolded as ungrateful.
Let’s talk about Mr. Yin again.
Firstly, the Wu Mansion really does not need an extra teacher now, and secondly, their little sister was not properly educated when she was fostered in her uncle's house. The incident of not being able to read a few words is still fresh in her mind.
This means that the Wu family will not use the gentleman recommended by the Zhou family. What if Wu Qing and Wu Che are taught bad things?
The Wu family really didn't want to stumble into the same trap twice. It took three years of hard work for the younger sister's teaching to achieve success. If Wu Qing and Wu Che were taught bad things, could they still make things right?
But if they don’t want to use Mr. Yin, they can’t let the Wu family explicitly refuse. No matter what they do, they have to give face to the Zhou family.
Besides, that was their uncle and their mother's brother, so they couldn't do anything too extreme or embarrassing.
Therefore, the Wu family treated Mr. Yin warmly and tolerantly, and treated guests as well as they could, but they never took the initiative to bring up the matter of hiring Mr. Yin, and even interrupted him when he did.
Naturally, the maid and servant underneath didn’t know the underlying reason for this matter.
Affected by the incident of Mr. Cao Cao running away in the past, they only knew that there was another Mr. Cao who was just looking for abuse. Out of good intentions, they persuaded people to forget it, and the master of the Wu family naturally followed suit.
After listening to Wu Lan's analysis, Wu Zhu suddenly realized: "It seems that my mother said that I really need to change my outspoken problem."
Wu Lan was very happy that she had this realization and was about to say something to encourage her.
The next moment, I heard Wu Zhu talking to himself: "It's better to have a dark heart and not let anyone take advantage of you. Alas, I miss my little sister. She has a lot of tricks, so just share some with me."
Wu Lan's eyes darkened, she said so much in vain, but the second sister didn't change at all!
Mr. Yin never thought that it would be self-defeating. He specially obtained a letter of recommendation from Zhou Zhe, an in-law of the Wu family, thinking that he would be a sure shot at becoming a teacher in the small Wu family. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be one of the reasons why the Wu family was unwilling to hire him.
He didn't even expect that the gentleman here in Xiaowu Mansion was not an economical person.
Especially the old man surnamed Yuan, who was very cunning and venomous. From the very beginning, he asked me to get to the bottom of things: "Looking at you, you have the head of a deer and the eyes of a rat, and you look like a wretched person. What do you know?"
Mr. Yin was extremely angry. In order not to be looked down upon, he answered the question of the Four Books and Five Classics that Mr. Fang was most proud of. Of course, he still had reservations.
Who would have thought that this damn old man wouldn't choose on the spot: "That's more than poetry. Whoever writes more poetry within half a stick of incense will win."
If Lihua were here, she would definitely be familiar with this move. Wasn't it the move she used during the competition with Wang Shiyu?
However, when competing with Wang Shiyu, it was the second time Lihua used it. The first time it was with Mr. Yuan, which made Mr. Yuan's beard explode with anger.