Yin Suo was soon summoned to Bao Xue's chambers.

  Xie Wan asked him: "How has Young Master been doing at the county school recently?"

  "Very good, the young master is diligent and intelligent, and has earned the praise of his teacher. He also gets along well with his fellow students, often discussing academic matters together." As he spoke, a pleased smile spread across his face: "The other day, Teacher Liu tested the students' homework, and out of sixty people, only three answered correctly, including our young master."

  Xie Wan slightly raised her lips and said: "When young master is in class, what are all of you little servants doing up front?"

  "In the county school, there is a place for us to rest, but not many people are qualified to bring their servants. There are only about fifteen or sixteen in total. When the brothers study, some of them go out for a stroll, while the younger ones gather with several others who have come to chat and drink tea."

  "Who were those people you had tea with?"

  "There are Chen family's second son beside him, Li family's eldest son beside him, and Wu family's eldest son beside him."

  Xie Wan's expression changed slightly as she asked, "Who told Master about Second Young Miss forcing me to drink?"

  Yin Xiao said with a smile: "It's small..." After finishing, he raised his head. When he saw Xie Wu's gaze, he couldn't help but lower his head and purse his lips.

  Xie Wan looked at him deeply for a while and hummed softly.

  Yin Suo drummed up the courage to say: "Miss, I'm not intentionally disobeying your orders, but I think that young master's mind is too shallow and it's easy for him to be taken advantage of. These days, I've been with the young masters' servants in the county school, and I've heard many things about young master and other scholars getting together."

  Because the young lady usually gives the young master a lot of pocket money, while others may not have so much money to spend on food and drink because they have many brothers at home. So they often gang up to persuade the young master to treat them, and within a month of starting school, the young master's money is almost all gone. I know the young lady won't be stingy with this money, but I think it's not worth it for the young master.

  "So the little one told all these things to the young master. Wanting him to grow a bit wiser, knowing that it's not easy for the young lady to manage the household, and also seeing a few hints of evil intentions in people's hearts. The little one took liberties and was wrong, please punish me, miss."

  Xie Wan was stunned, she knew that Xie Lang's expenses had increased after entering school, and thought that it was different from the academy, so she never inquired deeply. It turns out that she was wrong! Even Yin Suo is worried about Xie Lang's lack of city walls. It can be seen that Xie Lang has been fooled by his good nature every day. Now he is being deceived by his classmates, what if it were Wang Shi or Xie Hong next time?

  She can defend herself when she is in Xie's mansion, but what if she is not there?

  Thinking of this, she felt a chill in her heart. It seemed that she was so focused on how to deal with Wang Shi that she had forgotten about her own foundation.

  She then called Yu Fang: "The silver money in the second young master's hand, give it to you to manage." After thinking for a moment, she also instructed: "If there is anything in the house, don't hide it from him either."

  In the end, she had a lot to do. Without Xie Liang's support, it wouldn't have gone so smoothly. She couldn't just inform him temporarily when something came up, that would be more trouble than it was worth. Besides, the second house still claimed to be Xie Liang's household on the surface. Faced with their gradually improving situation, if Xie Liang remained indifferent and uninvolved, how could he gain anyone's trust?

  What's more, she is about to make another move.

  Yu Fang was delighted: "I will definitely serve Second Young Master well!"

  Xie Wan rarely saw her so happy, but didn't think much of it. Turning his head to look at Yin Suo again, he said in a gentle tone: "I'll add one or two silver coins to your monthly allowance. If there's anything that needs reminding about Young Master, just remind him."

  Yin Xiao was also very happy and knocked his head, after which he naturally served Xie Lian even more diligently without mentioning it again.

  In May, the fragrance of zongzi wafted through the air, and news arrived that Xie Rong had been appointed as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy. Although they were still in mourning for Xie Teng and his wife, since the intense mourning period was over after half a year, Xie Qigong invited a troupe of actors to perform a three-day play, just like in previous years. All the families with connections to the Xie family were invited, including the Ruan, Huang, He, and Wang families, as well as some esteemed gentlemen and ladies from the county.

  Yu Shi and Qi Ru Zhong Qi Ru Xiu were also among them.

  Yu's family was just thinking of inviting Xie Wan, and Qi Ru Zhen also wanted to talk to Xie Lian very much, so on the second day of the play, he drove over to the mansion. Xie Wan hurried to the second door to welcome him, but unexpectedly, in addition to the Qi family members who entered together, there were also two horse-drawn carriages from the Ren family behind them.

  Mr. Ren Zhiyuan and his wife have arrived, as well as Fourth Young Lady Ren Dai, that's all.

  Yu's family saw Xie Wan dazed under the second door, smiled and hugged her over: "Halfway through, I happened to meet Mrs. Ren and others, come and see them quickly."

  Xie Wan politely came forward and paid his respects, then led everyone into the main hall.

  Huang's family heard the news and had already come out of the three gates to welcome her. Today, she was wearing a rose-colored dress with golden embroidery, with three or four gold hairpins on her head, looking radiant and festive.

  Arrived at Sanmen Nei, Xie Qi wore a pale green plain gauze dress and stood warmly under the corridor waiting for everyone.

  "Qí'er has met Uncle Ren and Auntie Ren, and also met Auntie Shu. Greetings to Brother Qi and Sister Qi."

  Madam Ren had not seen Xie Qi for several months, and now that she saw her, it was as if she had changed into a different person, and she couldn't help but reveal a few hints of shock.

  Ren Dai Cai was only eight years old. Seeing the situation, she smiled and crossed over to Xie Qi Dao: "Today my third brother didn't come, you'll be disappointed!"

  Madam Ren was greatly embarrassed by this and hastily stopped Ren Dai, then entered the main hall with Huang Shi, laughing and chatting.

  Xie Wei was also in a new dress, accompanying Wang Shi in the main hall.

  The Wang family was very enthusiastic about the Ren family mother and daughter, but only smiled and exchanged a few pleasantries with the Yu family mother and daughter before ignoring them. Xie Wei was quite good at observing people's expressions, seeing that the Yu family mother and daughter were only accompanied by Xie Zhuang, so she came over to talk to Qi Rujin. The Yu family didn't want to stay here and be neglected by the Wang family, so they found an excuse and took Xie Zhuang back to the Yifeng Institute.

  "This Yifeng Courtyard, I've only heard it's not bad, but I just came once when your parents got married. Who would have thought that now you siblings moved back and it fell into your hands again? This is really great."

  Yu Shi walked into the courtyard and looked around before saying with a sigh of relief.

  Xie Wan waved her arm: "It's not easy to come, let's rest for a night and leave tomorrow. Nowadays, there are many places to live, no need to care about others."

  Just then, Xie Wei and Qi Ru Xiu walked in arm-in-arm, laughing as they picked up the conversation: "Yes. Aunt should stay overnight, it's a rare opportunity after all. Besides, I'm also happy to have met you again, Sister Xiu. You're rushing off so hastily, who knows when I'll get to see you both again?"

  Yu's family, although they didn't have a good impression of the Xie family except for Er Fang, but facing Xie Wei such a young girl, she couldn't help but soften. "What kind of status is Miss, our family's daughter was raised rough and simple, what does she know? Miss, don't laugh at her for being shallow."

  With a pouting mouth like embroidery.

  Xie Wei smiled and said, "Aunt still says that Hua'er is shallow? She can even fill in the lyrics according to the melody, and I'm still learning the lyrics. Tell me, how many women in our Hejian Prefecture have this ability? If Aunt wasn't a family member, I'd suspect she was speaking sarcastically and mocking me!"

  She was good at Ci and Qu lyrics throughout her life, and also had a dabble in music. Her future husband was compatible with her because of his insight into Ci and Qu.

  Xie Wei said with a half-joking and half-scolding tone, Yu Shi suddenly felt a bit embarrassed, and the original resentment and prejudice also dissipated a lot.

  "It's strange, every time my sister-in-law comes back, she tells me that San Nainai and Daguniang are the most virtuous and gentle, treating her like their own daughter or younger sister. Now it seems, not a single word is false. Just listening to your two sentences, I've already taken a liking to you!"

  Xie Wei hastily walked up and said, "Since that's how it is, Aunt has given me this face-saving opportunity, I'll stay here today!"

  Yu Shi laughed and said it's okay, there are no outsiders in this house. The whole family, old and young, chatted freely, feeling quite at ease.

  After lunch, Qi Ru Xiu and Xie Wei went to listen to the opera together. They were of similar age. As a result, they often talked about topics that were more suitable for their age group, and in front of them, Xie Zhuang was always treated like a child, although in reality, in Xie Zhuang's eyes, they were the ones who were truly childish.

  Yu Shi stayed in Yifeng Temple to rest because he didn't want to meet Wang Shi.

  Xie Wan had seen too many plays in her past life and wasn't very interested, but she heard that Wang Anmei was also coming with her mother He Shi, so she wanted to take a look. After chatting with Yu Shi for a while, seeing her becoming drowsy, knowing that sleepiness was coming, she quietly left the room.

  As soon as I arrived at the front yard, I heard Yuxue talking to someone.

  Out came to the hall and took a look, it turned out that Ren Dai had arrived.

  Ren Dai is only eight years old this year, and she is one year younger than Xie Wan, but her momentum is much stronger than Xie Wan's.

  She put her hands on her hips and pointed at Yuxue: "...... Hurry up and tell her where she is!"

  Yu Xue's face was filled with helplessness as she said in a warm tone, "Our young lady is accompanying Auntie for her afternoon nap. If you have something to discuss, it would be better to come later."

  "No way, I have to tell her now. Later I'll be leaving!" Ren Dai stomped her foot, somewhat anxious.

  Xie Wan slowly said: "What can I do for Miss Ren?"

  The two of them looked over at the same time. Ren Dai hurriedly ran to her front, stretched out her chubby fingers and pointed at her: "Why did you say those things to my brother? Do you know how angry he got?"

  It was for this matter after all.

  She thought that the Ren family was really not clever, their own son being despised by a young girl, and it was just their own people who felt indignant. If it got out, wouldn't it be embarrassing for them? If she were in their shoes, she definitely wouldn't breathe a word about it. Besides, did they have the ability to make him so angry?

  She said, "Miss is too polite to me, I have known him for only half a year until now, and we have met only two or three times. How can I be angry with him? If I were to get angry, it would definitely be for something else."

  Ren Dai's face turned red as she said: "It was you! I heard it from Yu Niang."

  Xie Wan smiled and said, "Miss, would you get angry with someone unrelated just because of something unrelated they said? For example, if I said today that Miss Ren's hair is messy, or that this purple dress doesn't match your skin tone, would you be so angry with me that you can't let it go for several months? What I said to your brother was similar."

  Ren Dai was stunned, her pointing finger also slowly softened, and she fell into deep thought.

  Xie Wan fanned herself with a round fan and went past her to the theater garden.

  The temple's gate is open, and the empty space inside the gate is filled with tables and chairs. The common people standing outside the stone lions at the entrance can also see it clearly.

  Now the inside and outside are crowded with people. Xie Wan stood under the pagoda tree, her eyes found where the Wang family was sitting, and saw that the two women who came were two young women, as well as two girls. The woman should be Wang Geng's wife He Shi, and Wang Fa's wife Fu Shi. The girl-like ones are naturally Wang Anmei and her sister Wang Simei.

  Xie Wan sized up the obviously older Wang Anmei, seeing her slender figure, slightly furrowed eyebrows, tightly pursed lips, and a taciturn expression. She wasn't beautiful, but still looked delicate; if not for that flaw, marrying into a decent family wouldn't be a problem.

  If Luo Ju's message is true, then after Wang Ge failed to kick Wang Anmei out of the house, he will definitely think of other ways. What's the difference between this kind of person who doesn't even care about his own flesh and blood, but instead vents his anger on her by locking her up and starving her to death, and a beast? If it weren't for him, would Wang Anmei have come into this world?

  A person with poor conduct can be called a rebellious child, but being born with defects is not her fault.

  Find an opportunity to ask Wang Anmei if she is willing to marry the eldest young master of the Zhao family.

  Today, Zhao Zhen and his wife also came, unable to save face.

  She glanced at where Madam Zhao was sitting, shook her fan, and then returned to her room in a gust of clear wind.

  PS: This chapter is 3,500 words long, please vote for tickets!!! Today's third update, please vote for tickets!!! The second update will be at 14:00 and the third update will be at 20:00, please vote for tickets!!!

  By the way, regarding Xie Lian, actually I had planned something for him in the back, but since everyone thinks it's time to discipline him now, I made some slight modifications and brought it forward a bit. Thanks for everyone's opinions~~~ Then, about comments posted as a tourist, I won't respond to any of them because logging in can also increase a few clicks to support me, ah, not even logging in is really heartbreaking for me.