Hearing that the Gong family sent someone to visit, Huo Erhuai and Yang took it very seriously. The couple received the invitation and waited at home. They tidied up the house several times and were very excited.
When the time came, he went to the door to greet him.
Just looking at the two nuns and two stewards of the Gong family, they looked arrogant and looked at them sideways when they came in. They didn't even have a smile on their faces. The couple felt a little nervous and felt that something was wrong.
Huo Xi was waiting in front of the flower hall. When she saw them, she frowned. Aunt Ma glanced at them lightly. She had seen too many people like this, and she didn't even need to speak. Everything was written on her face.
"Sit, sit." Although he is just a servant of the Gong family, he has come all the way to represent the head of the family, so he cannot be ignored. Yang greeted him warmly and ordered the servants to serve tea and fruits and snacks.
Several people from the Gong family looked at the flower hall and sat down with disgusted expressions on their faces.
After sitting down, he looked at Huo Xi with wild eyes. Huo Xi looked at them one by one and let them look at them without saying a word.
He's two confidants, Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Gu, saw that Huo Xi didn't look like someone from a small family, so they looked at her favorably. However, seeing her in a simple dress with narrow sleeves, they couldn't bear it.
Live in contempt.
He raised his chin to the gifts they brought on the table: "These are all given to Miss Huo by our wife. I would like to thank Miss Huo for helping my young master. My family is a wealthy family in Huai'an, and we never make mistakes in our rules and etiquette. Unlike some
There is no comparison between a small door and a small household."
Yang and Huo Erhuai didn't understand the meaning. Huo Xi did, but she didn't intend to speak.
Mother Ma smiled and said, "Thank you so much. We, ladies and gentlemen, do a lot of good deeds on weekdays. We often show kindness to others and never ask for anything in return. I didn't expect that after so long, there are still people who remember it and come here.
Thank you for your hard work."
Well……
Several servants of the Gong family raised their eyes to look at Mother Ma. Unexpectedly, there was such a powerful mother-in-law in this small family.
Huo Erhuai and Yang felt that the other person's words were strange and uncomfortable, but they couldn't hear the twists and turns in it, so they glanced at Huo Xi.
Huo Xi smiled at them and comforted them. She raised her eyes and glanced at Mother Ma. The couple followed her gaze and understood that it was okay for them not to understand. They only asked Mother Ma to take action.
Just fine.
So I just sat quietly.
Xi'er said that Mother Ma came from the palace. Could it be that the servants of the Gong family were as powerful as Mother Ma?
The couple felt relieved and lost some enthusiasm. They just smiled and invited them to drink tea.
Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Gu originally wanted to humiliate this family verbally and secretly, so that they would know their identities and stop daydreaming about things they couldn't reach.
Unexpectedly, he didn't even make many moves, but he was pushed back by the nanny in front of him several times.
I'm also getting angry, so I don't want to be too subtle about it.
"Our palace family has a large business, so it is different from other families. Our young lady has invited female teachers to teach her various skills since she was a child, including piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and needlework. She even talks and walks according to the rules.
, I would never dare to invite a man to your home for dinner without any trouble. If you want to invite guests to your home, you have to give a courtesy invitation, and men and women are entertained separately..."
Yang and Huo Erhuai understood this time. They were saying that their small family had no rules and they thought their daughter was incompetent.
Yang was so angry that she thought the Gong family was here to see her, but they were here to humiliate her? She was so angry that she straightened up and wanted to speak, but Huo Xi stopped her with a look.
Yang held a breath in her chest and stared at those people angrily.
Mother Ma smiled and said: "Yes, there are many rules in rich families. The ladies are kept at home without leaving the front door. They are unaware of the changes in the world. People starve to death at the door and freeze to death, and they only stay in the backyard.
Play and sing, recite poems and compose poems."
"you!"
Mother Ma's expression was serious: "My husband and wife are kind-hearted. When people come to ask for food, we can't kick them out. We, from a small family, usually want to lend a helping hand when we see a poor person, but
It’s not that we turn a blind eye. Every month, more than a dozen carriages, decorated luxuriously, come to the temple to donate a few taels of sesame oil.”
Does this mean that the Gong family is hypocritical? They say that Miss Huo does not know the rules and does not know how to avoid suspicion, so she attracts men to come to the house for dinner, so they say that the young master is a poor man who comes to beg for food?
It's simply unbearable.
Mrs. Zheng raised her neck and said: "In our Huai'an, we have never seen a house where the young lady is so unruly and even eats at the table with her husband. It is simply unheard of."
Mother Ma only smiled and said: "We don't have many rules in our small family. If parents, brothers and sisters eat together, they won't put up a screen in the middle to block it. In my family, even the emperor's grandson eats at the same table with us.
"
Er? The emperor’s grandson? Dining at Huo’s house?
Several members of the Gong family looked at each other, thinking they had heard wrongly.
Huo Xi glanced at Mother Ma, who nodded towards her and didn't intend to say anything more.
Huo Erhuai and Yang also heard about the Gong family's humiliation, so naturally they would not respond favorably to them.
As for the few people in the palace family, they heard that the emperor's grandson often ate here, and subconsciously they didn't dare to say anything more, for fear that they would leak some terrible news and ruin the mistress's important affairs.
I was ready to learn more about him, so I hurriedly stood up and left.
Huo Erhuai and Yang didn't stay either. They lost their enthusiasm and didn't lift their butts, so they just asked their servants to send them out.
The couple sat in the flower hall and sulked: "Your father and I thought that the Gong family came to see each other, but we didn't expect that they actually don't like our family! Just don't like our family if you don't like it. Let's see if we like each other."
There are many people who are interested, but this is the first time that someone comes all the way to tell lies. Gee, it’s really strange. It’s said that someone from a wealthy family understands the rules.”
Mother Ma was silent.
She took a cold look at Gong Ziyi and felt that he was a very nice person and that he was also interested in his own girl. She had stayed in the homes of officials and knew that officials had strict rules. If a girl like this married to a merchant, she would not
By restraining her temperament, she feels more free.
Just let nature take its course.
How did you know that this big businessman was looking at people through cracks in the door? Huh, she didn't despise the other party's low status and was not worthy of her own girl, but she actually despised her own girl. She really didn't know what to say.
He glanced at Huo Xi with some distress.
I don’t know what kind of rules the girl has in mind. She and Master Nian have grown up, so don’t they plan to return to their father’s family? If they have an identity, how can they be picked on by a businessman?
He sighed secretly.
Huo Xi didn't expect that things would turn out like this. It seemed that Gong Ziyi didn't do all the work at home. His family looked down on him.
If she could marry Gong Ziyi, she wouldn't have to abide by so many rules. Even if she went out to do business, no one would object to her publicity. If her own business is supported by a big leg, it will only prosper in the future.
The most important thing is that Gong Ziyi is someone he has taken a liking to.
What he didn't expect was that his family didn't take a fancy to him.
If I had a different identity, would they look down on me?