Xie Wan thinks that having pressure on one person is not a bad thing, at least it shows that he has a sense of responsibility.

  So she didn't overly indulge Xie Liang, but instead had Wu Xing and Yin Su take good care of his daily life.

  At night, Luo Sheng returned, and Xie Wan handed over a letter to be sent to Huangshi Town, informing Mei Sao that she would go there in two days. When the time came, she went to Wutou Village and asked her to bring people over to take a look.

  "Are you going alone, miss?" Luo asked, worried about her safety.

  Xie Wan said: "Follow Yun Ge and Wei Jie with them, there are five or six people, and let Wu Xing and Yu Xue Yu Fang follow along."

  Luo Cheng hesitated and said: "Why don't I also go with the young lady?"

  "It's not necessary." Xie Wan waved her hand: "The shop is busiest at this time, and we've already missed the season. If we don't take advantage of this period to make some more money and get people back, it will definitely affect next year's business."

  Luo Sheng had no choice but to step down.

  In addition to Xie He and Xie Lian who were preparing for the imperial examination, the other young masters and misses in the mansion began to eagerly await snow every day.

  On the ninth day of the first month, the weather finally turned cloudy, and a light snow fell in the morning, but it stopped by the afternoon. By the tenth day, it started snowing lightly in the morning.

  Xie Yun went from door to door with the notice, and after noon, she set off. Xie Wan made up her mind not to change it easily, so she also let people pack their things immediately. After doing some needlework in the house for a while, the sky was getting darker, and then she walked to the front yard.

  Yu Fang stepped forward and said: "Miss, Luo's person has arrived."

  Luo Sheng agreed to send someone over these two days, but coincidentally they arrived at this moment.

  Xie Wan stepped out of the doorway and saw two people standing under the paulownia tree at the entrance, one tall and one short. The taller one was about 14 or 15 years old, while the shorter one was around 11 or 12 years old. The older one was leaning down to say something to the younger one. Both of them were dressed in ordinary clothes, although their garments were old, the creases had not yet faded, showing that they had put on their best clothes from the bottom of their trunks for this trip.

  Taking advantage of the fact that the two had not yet noticed, Xie Wan carefully observed them for a few moments. The older one's facial features seemed somewhat familiar, his expression was very serious, and his eyes were straight ahead, occasionally glancing over with a hint of elegance in his words, completely unlike the mediocre appearance described by Luo Sheng. She thought it was just Luo Sheng being modest on purpose, so she didn't think much of it.

  Look at that other one, with a wooden expression, facing the young man's advice only nodding and not making a sound, this is what is called truly mediocre.

  Anyway, at least one of the two has potential to be trained. Xie Wan nodded and turned back into the house. She said to Yu Fang: "Didn't we still have some leftover fabric last time? Take them to see how much goods they can recognize. Also find a few pages of discarded account books for them to look at, and try if they can understand."

  Yu Fang went as soon as she was called.

  Xie Wan returned to her room and took a nap, then came back: "The older one is called Luo Ju, he can recognize seven or eight out of ten. As for the ones she didn't recognize, she wrote them down with a pen. Oh, Luo Ju is literate and can read account books, but the one named Luo Huan can't, neither recognizing characters nor distinguishing between silk and cotton fabrics, let alone anything more subtle."

  Xie Wan nodded and thought for a moment, "Let Luo Huan follow Shen Tian to Li Zihu with Luo Sheng, and let Luo Ju follow us to Wutou Village."

  Yu Fang hastily said: "Luo Ju said he wants to see Luo Guan Shi."

  Xie Wan said: "What's the matter can't come back and say? Let him go and get a carriage."

  It's not easy to get a cultivable seedling, and she naturally wants to keep it by her side for observation. This going out thing is the most difficult to serve, let alone with such a group of children? With her past life experience of knowing countless people, as long as he follows her for half a month, she can more or less figure out Luo's depth.

  At noon, six people with their entourage rode in four mule-drawn carriages to Wutou Village.

  Xie Lang repeatedly exhorted and reminded him thousands of times, sending him off at the door for over ten steps, only missing wiping away tears and breaking willows.

  Xie Wei sighed as she sat in the same car with Xie Wan: "It's still better to be a younger sister, having an older brother to care for her."

  Xie Wan smiled and said: "Isn't it better to have parents who love you?"

  Xie Wei smiled and pulled her into his arms, gently helping her fasten the belt of her cheongsam.

  Wang let Zhou Erjia and Pang Sheng go to Wutou Village in advance on Tuesday, and when the mule cart arrived, Zhou Erjia had already welcomed them at the gate of the quadrangle courtyard located in the village.

  The snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, fluttering and swirling, almost making it impossible to see each other's faces. After Xie Yun landed, she threw a handful of snow into the necks of Xie Tong and Ren Huan, who let out a burst of screams and quickly chased after her, surrounding and attacking her in an instant.

  On Tuesday, Guan smiled and led the three girls into the backyard, each with velvet curtains and a large incense burner in their rooms. Then he went down to arrange food and drink. The maids all came in to serve, change clothes and drink tea. Xie Zhuang asked Yu Xue: "Where are Wu Xing and the others?" Because she was the youngest, this time she brought the most people, including Luo Fang, a total of four.

  Yu Xue glanced out of the window and said: "Wu Xing is unloading luggage, Luo Ju tied up the mule after that he wandered around everywhere, don't know what he's doing."

  Xie Wan took over the hot ginger tea and drank two mouthfuls, then handed it to Yu Xue: "Let Wu Xing keep an eye on him, don't let him make a mess."

  "Got it."

  Yu Xue put down the tea and placed her legs on the kang, saying: "It's still early for dinner, young lady, take a rest." Then she carefully checked the charcoal fire in the brazier, opened a line of windows, and lit a piece of incense that had been prepared in the room of Yi Fengyuan, before closing the door and leaving.

  Xie Wan slept for a while and vaguely heard someone talking outside the window. At first, she didn't want to pay attention, so she turned over, but the voice grew louder.

  "...... You clearly picked two persimmons, why did you lie to me?!"

  "It's really not true, don't listen to Tongge's nonsense."

  "He's my brother, how could he cheat me? It was obviously you who cheated me!..."

  Xie Wan opened her eyes, got up, and looked out through the open window. The snow had almost stopped, and in the vegetable garden, which was piled high with thick snow, Ren Yun and Xie Qi were standing in the empty courtyard. Xie Qi's eyes were red and staring at him, like a frog that had been holding its breath.

  These two are everywhere.

  Xie Wan was speechless as she prepared to lie down, but Ren Yun spoke up, "Can't you not be so unreasonable? You've known me for so long, when have I ever lied to you? I treat you like a sister, and also treat Wei Jie and San Mei like sisters. Even if I really only picked one persimmon, or even if I really picked several, what's wrong with giving two to them?"

  "Who's being unreasonable?!" Xie Qi stomped her foot, tears rolling down, but her voice softened, "In the past, whenever you had something delicious, you'd always save one for me. Not even Big Sister or Fourth Brother would get any. Now, it seems like you won't even think of me anymore. Jun Ge, do you dislike me?"

  He looked at her with a dazed expression, his tone unconsciously softening, "Look at you, why are you crying? Didn't I say I'd treat you like my sister? How could I dislike you?"

  Xie Qi looked up at him with pitiful eyes and asked: "Will you always be this good to me?"

  Xie Wan suddenly felt a bit of toothache, covered her chest and turned back to drink some tea.

  Wai Tou Ren Yun didn't know what he said, Xie Qi cheered up: "Then give this to me, and consider it an apology!"

  Xie Wan looked back, only to see Xie Qi quickly untying the jade pendant from Ren Yu's waist and hiding it behind his back. Ren Yu hastily said: "This was left to me by my grandmother, I won't give it away! I have an even better piece of jade, I'll give you that one!" But Xie Qi had already run far away.

  Xie Wan rubbed her sore and swollen cheeks, and her sleepiness was gone.

  At dinner time in the hall, Xie Qi's expression was always very pleasant and proud, while Ren Yun's eyes were dim and worried, obviously because the jade had not been retrieved yet.

  Xie Yun and Xie Tong went up the mountain in the afternoon, but except for catching a rabbit and two mountain sparrows, they didn't gain anything else. The two of them summed up their failed experience and thought it was because the target location wasn't right, so they planned to continue their expedition early tomorrow morning towards the western mountain ridge, and therefore didn't notice the abnormality between Ren Huan and Xie Qi.

  Xie Wei seemed to have noticed something, and she elbowed Xie Wan: "Did Qízi get some treasure or something? She's acting so spirited and lively."

  Xie Wan just smiled and didn't answer.

  The program after dinner was to roast rabbit and mountain sparrow in the courtyard, so everyone just made a gesture at the dinner table. However, with too many people, one rabbit was obviously not enough, so Pang Sheng had already gone to the village before dinner with Li Gang, the manager of Tianzhuang, to buy two chickens and another rabbit, and asked Li Gang's wife to clean and marinate them with sauce and salt, then brush a few drops of yellow wine on them. When they were roasted over the fire, they were just right in flavor.

  Li Gangjia's craftsmanship was excellent, and in no time, two rabbits and one chicken were finished, leaving only one chicken to be divided among Xie Yun, Xie Tong, and Gua.

  Xie Wan was afraid of indigestion and only ate one chicken leg.

  It was clear that Ren Yun's mood had not been good all night, and Xie Yun and Xie Tong made a fuss for a while before dispersing, while he was the first to return to his room.

  Yu Xue made a bowl of tea to remove the greasiness for Xie Wan, while she was planning to go to Huangshi Town tomorrow morning and wanted to keep it secret from everyone, so after the lights were turned off in the house, she called Wu Xing in to discuss the details.

  Just a few words were spoken when suddenly a scream was heard from outside, followed by the sound of crashing and banging, and then someone shouted: "Who is it?!"

  Wu Xing hastily went out the door, and Yu Xue followed him. Xie Wan seemed to hear Xie Wei calling, hesitated for a moment, and also followed them out the door.

  Xie Wan's room was on the west side, next to Yu Xue and their residence. The several rooms on the east side were occupied by Xie Wei, Xie Qi, and their attendants. When Xie Wan arrived at the corridor, Xie Wei had already been escorted by the maids Autumn Frost and Shuang Cheng to stand at the corridor, frowning and scanning the various parts of the courtyard. The male servants all lived in the front yard, so except for Wu Xing, they were basically all female attendants.

  But judging from Xie Wei's not-too-high tone just now, he should also have received some insignificant fright.

  There are many flowers and grasses planted in the courtyard, and a grape arbor and a melon shed have been built. Although it is now midwinter, the withered vines still remain on top, blocking much of the view.

  Xie Wan called out "big sister" and was about to walk past the corridor when suddenly someone fell down at her feet from under the melon shed!