After Yun Qiao went out, Fourth Master Xi tidied up, took a newspaper and planned to go to the study to read.
But Xi Wenlan asked from behind: "Dad, are you really not going to the Zhu family's wedding banquet?"
The Zhu family also sent an invitation to Fourth Master Xi.
However, the invitations from the Zhu family to the Governor's Mansion and the second master were sent by the eldest master of the Zhu family in person; the invitations to the other masters of the Xi Mansion were sent by their servants.
Fourth Master Xi knew that the Zhu family could not reach high places, and Zhu Longtou was too lazy to join in the fun because he was a person of high rank.
"I've already asked someone to send the gift," said Fourth Master Xi.
When he went, it was just for an ordinary banquet. He had no need to socialize, and he didn't really like false compliments from others - in an occasion like the Zhu family, there probably wouldn't be many people complimenting him, there were too many big shots.
"Dad, you'd better go and take mom with you." Xi Wenlan said, "Mom also wants to know a few more mahjong players."
Du Xueru glanced at Xi Wenlan with relief, and said to Fourth Master Xi: "Yes, let's go."
Fourth Master Xi thought that all the things Wen Lan had caused were caused by "many friends", and he felt angry in his heart.
It makes me even more angry when I think that my wife and daughter are not smart. When they go out to socialize, others will take advantage of them and take advantage of them.
He turned cold and said: "There are so many sisters-in-law, nephews, wives, and countless servants at home. Isn't this enough to play mahjong?"
After that, he went to the study.
Du Xueru stood there, feeling ashamed.
The servants walked away quietly and chatted behind each other's backs.
Du Xueru did not dare to get angry at Fourth Master, but she thought that she had never thought of going, but Wen Lan had repeatedly encouraged her to take the opportunity to make friends with the third concubine of the Zhu family.
It was Xi Wenlan who spoke just now.
"You are always focused on serious things all day long. Why do you, a young girl, worry all the time about whether I can play mahjong or not?" Du Xueru said to Xi Wenlan with a cold face.
Xi Wenlan stood where he was.
The servants were muttering in the small room.
In less than a year, the situation has changed so quickly.
Miss Xi Wenlan used to have the wind and the rain in the fourth room. Her words were listened to by the fourth master and his wife, and she seemed to have the final say in the entire fourth room.
Then, Yun Qiao came.
Since Yun Qiao came, Xi Wenlan has made many mistakes, and even the servants feel that she is not as smart as before; later, the fourth master couldn't help scolding her and was very disappointed with her; the fourth wife has been supporting her, and now
My son also vented his anger on her.
To say she is pitiful is because she brought this upon herself.
"In short, it's hateful and pathetic."
The servants summed it up this way.
Xi Wenlan went back to her room and fell on the bed. She clenched her teeth and tears kept flowing. She hated and was very scared at the same time. Everything in the fourth room was slowly getting out of control.
At first it was the younger brothers, who ignored her provocation and took the initiative to chat with Yun Qiao because Yun Qiao was good-looking and they had such a sister, so they had face in front of their classmates; now it is the parents.
What about the future?
Yun Qiao had breakfast and first went to Xi Lanting's yard.
Xi Lanting is changing clothes. He is wearing a shirt and suit today.
He wore a snow-colored stand-up collared shirt that looked particularly elegant; outside was a light gray vest, a similarly light gray suit, and a gold pocket watch hung on the vest pocket.
When he was hanging up his pocket watch, Yun Qiao came in and immediately wanted to see which one he was using and whether it was the one she gave him.
"Uncle Qi, did you let Xiao Xiang go?" Yun Qiao asked deliberately, wanting to see what happened.
Xi Lanting: "No."
The pocket watch with the little portraits in it was not this one. That pocket watch - the one given by Yun Qiao, had the little faces of the two of them in it. It was in his shirt pocket, close to his heart.