In the inner courtyard of the Gao family, Gao Heng was talking with his wife.
"Master, tell me, you go for a walk, why do you bring two country bumpkins home to live with you?"
It was Mrs. Gao who said this. She immediately became unhappy after the servant came in and told her that his master wanted to keep two country bumpkins at home.
Gao Heng sat back on the armchair and said with a sullen face: "What are you talking about? Brother Mu and the others are here to deliver a message to Chen Xiang. What's wrong with leaving the young couple to stay here?"
Mrs. Gao is thirty-six this year. She has a beautiful and plump child. She has given birth to two children for the Gao family, a boy and a girl. She is usually a good husband and wife, but she is a bit bad, being snobbish and looking down on the poor!
Mrs. Gao sat opposite her husband, trying to maintain a calm mood and said: "Master, even if they are delivering a message to that girl Chen Xiang, you don't have to keep them in the west wing of the main courtyard if you want to stay overnight. That's fine...
.Can it be placed in the side yard and let the servants clean up a room at will?"
Gao Heng immediately frowned and said: "Living in the side courtyard? Thank you for your ability to explain it. All the people living in the side courtyard are men, all men! How can the Mu family's wife live there? Besides, what's wrong with living in the west wing? It's bothering you.
What happened?"
The west wing is separated by two entrances from the inner courtyard. If Mrs. Gao didn't want to see them, she would be almost untouchable.
Mrs. Gao pursed her lips and said with resentment: "Anyway, I am not happy to have a country bumpkin living in our house during the Chinese New Year. If relatives and friends see it, will it be embarrassing?"
"Why is it so embarrassing?" Gao Heng's eyebrows tightened even more, and he spread his hands and said, "Oh, Chen Xiang has someone coming to her home to deliver a letter. I didn't greet them properly, and even yelled outside. If this spreads out, what will others say about us? You're not
Are you someone who always cares about face the most? Why, are you willing to lose this face?"
Mrs. Gao couldn't answer the question for a moment, so she paused and then said: "You won't find an inn for them to stay? By the way, that shopkeeper Shen, his family runs an inn, can't you just send someone to tell them?"
"
"Do you still need to talk about this?" Gao Heng curled his lips and turned around and said, "I have been to shopkeeper Shen's house a long time ago. Shopkeeper Shen and his family went to the countryside to celebrate the New Year!"
Mrs. Gao suddenly looked surprised: "Ah, going to the countryside? This..."
Gao Heng's face turned gloomy and he said: "Madam, since I have brought the couple back, they are just staying here for two days, so please stop complaining!"
Seeing that her husband had set the tone, Mrs. Gao had no choice but to suppress her resentment in her stomach and remained silent.
Gao Heng sat quietly for a while, then stood up and said: "Let's go and eat. Don't neglect the guests!"
Mrs. Gao was stunned: "Master, you are not going to let me eat at the same table with those two country bumpkins, are you?"
"What, you think it's embarrassing?" Gao Heng pointed at himself and glared: "Don't forget, I am also a countryman, and I am also a country bumpkin!"
"That... that was before..." Mrs. Gao lost her momentum and did not dare to look at her husband, and continued: "I have seen that the master is what he is today, how could he...
...can they be compared?”
Gao Heng asked: "So you have made up your mind not to go?"
"You can go if you want, but I won't go anyway!" Mrs. Gao said stubbornly.
Gao Heng was angry but helpless, pointed at Madam Kong, and finally waved his sleeves and said: "Whatever you want!"
After saying that, Gao Heng strode out of the room.
Mrs. Gao turned around and glanced at the door. She punched her thigh angrily and called out: "Come here!"
"Madam..." A maid immediately appeared at the door and responded.
Mrs. Gao said loudly: "Go and tell the kitchen to bring the food here!"
"Yes, ma'am."
The maid bowed slightly and bowed, then walked away to spread the message.
"I'm so angry..."
Just as the maid left, she heard Mrs. Gao's angry voice again.
After Gao Heng came out of the inner courtyard, he asked his servants to clean the west wing before returning to the main hall.
Gao Heng came back and saw that only Chai Yan and his wife were sitting in the main hall, but Chen Xiang was not there.
"Brother Mu, Madam Mu, where did that girl Chen Xiang go? How could she leave you here?" Gao Heng's tone was reproachful.
Chai Yan immediately explained the situation to Gao Heng.
Gao Heng hurriedly apologized: "You two, I'm really sorry. We will be opening after the Chinese New Year. There are indeed a lot of things going on these days."
The three of them talked for a while in the main hall, and then a servant came over to inform them that dinner was ready and they could go to the side hall to eat.
Gao Heng nodded and said loudly to the boy: "By the way, go tell Chen Xiang and ask her to come here for dinner."
Gao Heng called Chen Xiang after careful consideration. It was still inconvenient to have only Mu's wife on the table. If Chen Xiang was there, the atmosphere would not be so awkward.
After the boy left, Gao Heng said politely: "You two, let's go to the side hall right now."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
The three of them were about to go to the side hall when they suddenly heard a donkey braying from outside.
Gao Heng felt strange, so he walked to the corridor outside the hall and asked loudly: "What's going on? Where did the donkey come from?"
Immediately, a boy came running back and said: "Sir, it's from the concierge. It's the donkey of the previous guest..."
Yuan Yuan was startled, and his eyes met Chai Yan's, and he said: "How come this voice sounds familiar..."
Chai Yan also nodded: "Yes, it sounds familiar..."
Yuyuan looked at Chai Yan questioningly, and Chai Yan nodded slightly. The two of them had obviously thought of something.
Gao Heng was stunned and said to himself: "Hey, how could I forget this..."
Gao Heng suddenly remembered that there was someone introduced by Mr. Li waiting at the concierge.
Gao Heng thought that he couldn't ignore the visitors, so he handed over his hands and apologized: "You two go sit in the side hall first, I will come to see someone..."
After saying that, Gao Heng ordered the servant to take Chai Yan and his wife to the side hall, while he walked to the concierge.
After a while, the boy brought Chai Yan and Yuan to the side hall.
After the boy left, Chai Yan said, "Madam, please change your gauze. It's not convenient to eat with a bamboo hat."
Yuan Yuan took out his eye gauze and tied it while saying: "You said the person Gao Heng went to meet was Yang Chengyi? I remember what he said before that he came to Yaozhou to meet an employer for work.
...What a coincidence!”
"Listen to that donkey braying, who else could it be?" Chai Yan said with a smile.
After tying the eye gauze and taking off the bamboo hat, Yuan Yuan also smiled: "Yes, that greedy donkey must have smelled the food and is hungry..."
Then Yuan Yuan said: "What do you think Yang Chengyi would look like if he saw us again?"
"What does it look like?" Chai Yan grinned and said, "I must be scared!"
On the other side, the person Gao Heng met at the concierge was indeed Yang Chengyi.
Gaoheng Semicolon will open in the next year, and now is the time to hire people. When I heard that Yang Chengyi had read books and wanted to do the accounting, he was very happy. He stayed without saying a word and gave the person
Arranged to live in the side yard.
Yang Chengyi was overjoyed, and his heart that had been hanging around finally dropped. He was waiting in the concierge just now, not to mention how uneasy he felt.