The Stepmother is Unkind

When it was almost time for Xie Ce to leave school, Yin Mingyu led Jin'er and Yin'er to the main courtyard.

As soon as she entered the warm pavilion, Mrs. Xie pointed to the two kang tables on the warm kang and said, "It has been prepared for you long ago."

Yin Mingyu took a look and saw that on the two kang tables, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all placed exactly the same. They really treated her and Xie Ce equally and wanted to do their homework together.

She took off her shoes and got on the kang, chose a table facing Madam Xie, and then taught Jin'er Yin'er to stack the "account books" in two stacks and place them in the center of the kang table, and then took out a book and spread it out on the table.

Mrs. Xie didn't hear her fiddling with the abacus, and she turned one eye and closed the other, leaving her alone.

A quarter of an hour later, Xie Ce came back, and when he saw that his mother had really come to "do homework" with him, he happily climbed up the heated kang.

Madam Xie said angrily: "Your mother is here, why are you so anxious?"

Xie Ce smirked and bowed obediently to his great-grandmother, but kept his eyes fixed on the other empty kang table. Obviously, "doing homework together" with his mother was far more attractive to him than his great-grandmother.

If he stared at Yin Mingyu, Madam Xie would be jealous again, but he was staring at the kang table, Madam Xie only laughed, "Come on."

Xie Ce sat behind the kang table and shouted excitedly, "Mother!"

Yin Mingyu rested his elbows on the table, looked up from behind the ledger, and smiled at him, "Let's practice calligraphy."

"it is good!"

Xie Ce agreed eagerly, and then picked up the pen and began to draw the road seriously.

Yin Mingyu hid behind the ledger and continued to read the "ledger". Mrs. Xie closed her eyes and rested her mind. There was only the occasional sound of turning pages in the warm pavilion.

After a while, Xie Ce raised his head, stretched his neck and glanced at her, and asked, "Mother?"

Yin Mingyu raised his head and glanced at Mrs. Xie. Seeing that she seemed to be asleep, he replied softly, "Huh?"

Xie Ce's face was full of doubts, "Don't you write?"

Relying on his smallness, Yin Mingyu nodded his head and fooled: "Mother's brain is smart, she can do all the calculations in her head, and she can do it with a swipe."

Xie Ce widened his eyes in surprise, "Really?"

Yin Mingyu held up the blank booklet she had prepared in advance, showed it to him, and vowed, "It will be full in a minute."

"Wow—" Xie Ce's innocent eyes were full of admiration.

With her eyes closed, Madam Xie was speechless, but she didn't make a sound.

Yin Mingyu didn't feel ashamed at all, and said to Xie Ce righteously: "Let's concentrate more, do you want to lose to your mother?"

Children are the least likely to be excited. Even if Xie Ce wrote it extremely seriously, Xiao Zui even pouted slightly because he was too serious.

Yin Mingyu lowered his head again and looked at the "ledger" seriously.

A quarter of an hour later, she raised her head, originally wanting to show Xie Ce the finished product she "swiped", but seeing that Xie Ce didn't remember this at all, she gave up regretfully and continued to immerse herself in the "ledger" middle.

I don't know how long it took, outside the warm pavilion, the maid reported: "Old Madam, Young Madam, Madam is here."

Yin Mingyu hurriedly put away the "ledger book" spread on the table, sandwiched it in the middle, took a book from the top and spread it out, picked up the abacus in the next instant, stood it up, and placed it flat on the table again, sliding his fingers from left to right. , then put all the beads up.

She did this series of actions in just a few breaths.

When Mrs. Xie heard the report, she opened her eyes, only to hear the sound of the abacus beads being drawn, and then she saw Yin Mingyu sitting there and began to fiddle with the abacus.

Mrs. Xie: "..."

And even if Xie Ce was ignorant, he couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

Mrs. Xie walked in with a letter, first heard the clear and regular sound of abacus, glanced at it, and then saluted Mrs. Xie.

Yin Mingyu seems to have just woken up from the busy work, and also goes down to salute Mrs. Xie.

Mrs. Xie waved her hand to teach her not to come down, and then presented the letter to Mrs. Xie with both hands: "Mother, the letter from Yangzhou is from the Bai family."

White House?

Yin Mingyu quietly raised his ears.

If she knew the Bai family, it should be the in-laws of the aunt who came out of the house. I heard that the uncle of the Bai family passed away three years ago, and the aunt and only daughter have been keeping filial piety.

It is said that after the old lady married the concubine concubine, she hardly mentioned the other party, and she did not know how the relationship was, and why did she write?

And Mrs. Xie took out the letter with a blank expression, swiped it very quickly, put down the letter, and said, "Their mother and daughter want to go to Beijing."

Mrs. Xie looked slightly surprised, and after a little thought, she said, "The niece of the Bai family has reached the age of marriage during her filial piety. Is it because of her marriage?"

Madam Xie said lightly, "Xu is as you guessed."

"Mother, how do you reply?"

Mrs. Xie glanced at the date behind the letter and said, "Maybe it's coming, what letter do you reply to, clean up the yard."

Mrs. Xie responded, and asked for instructions: "But cleaning up the yard where Mrs. aunt lived before?"

That yard is a cross-yard in the West Courtyard. Back then, the door to the West Courtyard was closed, and a separate door was opened to go in and out. No one has lived there for years.

Madam Xie said, "That's it."

Yin Mingyu couldn't stop being curious, but he didn't know anything, so he could only look back and forth at the expressions of the two of them.

After Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie finished talking, they looked up and saw that Xie Ce and Yin Mingyu had the same eavesdropping appearance. The corners of their mouths could not help but rise and they pressed down again. They glanced at Yin Mingyu's pile of "ledgers" with disgust, and said: " All right, come here today, you can go back."

Yin Mingyu was still unfinished, but still obediently retire.

If there was a guest in the house, it was a coquettish guest, a coquettish guest with a story. She was really curious and couldn't inquire about it casually, so she instructed the maid to go to the front yard, and asked Xie Qin to return to the east yard when she was free.

The first time she asked him to go back to the East Courtyard, Xie Qinfang confirmed it when he found out. When he was convinced, he temporarily put aside the affairs at hand and returned to the East Courtyard with doubts.

And as soon as he entered the hall, he was warmly greeted by Yin Mingyu.

At that moment, if Xie Qin's mood had to be described, it would be rather flattered.

Yin Mingyu greeted him from the door and entered the room, and couldn't wait to say, "I received a letter from Yangzhou today. It's a letter from the aunt in Yangzhou, saying that I want to bring my cousin to Beijing."

Xie Qin: "…"

Seeing that he didn't answer, Yin Mingyu asked politely: "Lang Jun, what is the attitude of grandmother towards that concubine aunt? How will I treat them in the future?"

Xie Qin picked up his mood, flicked her hand away, and sat down.

Hearing the story, he needed tea, so Yin Mingyu poured himself a cup of tea, thought about it, and sent it to Xie Qin first, saying, "Langjun, drink tea."

Xie Qin picked up the teacup and drank it unhurriedly, quenching her appetite, and just said, "At that time, the war was still over, and my grandfather had some accidents, so I had my aunt."

Yin Mingyu looked at him.

Sechin looked back.

Yin Mingyu asked, "Is it gone?"

Xie Qin paused, and then said: "Grandmother is just not very affectionate to her aunt, and she did not express her anger. You will treat them as usual when you are there."

Yin Mingyu continued to look at him: "Is it gone?"

Isn't there some extension to the story? How did the accident happen, and what happened later, is there nothing to say?

Xie Qin read the longing in her eyes, picked up the tea, and deliberately turned a blind eye.

Yin Mingyu took a deep breath and snatched his tea directly, and he really couldn't expect him.

Xie Qin still held the posture of serving tea, then picked up the teapot in a good mood and poured another cup.