The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and the sound of putting things in her hands became a little louder.
After listening to her explanation, Wei Jingwei realized that Xia Ning was originally pulling weeds in the yard. It turned out that the old people in the mansion bullied him for being a child. The huge Mei Mansion was intricately connected, and many people were related to each other. But he was the only one who entered the house alone, so of course everyone left the dirty and tiring work in the yard to him alone.
Xia Ning is not very old, but years of hard work have made him thinner than other children his age. He also has to fetch water from a remote well. My hands were so cold that they were covered with chilblains.
Wei Jing looked at it slightly and saw many wounds opening.
Revealing the tender pink meat inside.
"Also, miss, look at the cotton clothes he is wearing. The money for making two winter coats for each person in the house was given out, but those people actually gave him old clothes to wear, and he got four new clothes for free."
After hearing this, Wei Jingwei looked at Xia Ning with her head lowered and sighed slightly in her heart.
"Your sister Lian'er speaks for you like this. I'm curious about what you think."
"I...."
Xia Ning pursed her lips, her face a little confused.
"I can ask Lian'er to help you this time, but what about next time? Everyone has their own things to do, and we can't watch over you all the time. In the end, you still have to learn to fight back on your own. If you can't rely on yourself, you will always have to fight back. If you think about borrowing help from outside, you will never make any progress.”
Xia Ning seemed to be deep in thought after hearing this, and Wei Jingwei was not in a hurry.
This child is a malleable talent, and if she can help, she will do her best.
But if...
Thinking of this, her eyes froze.
After thinking for a few moments, Xia Ning raised his head, his eyes firm as if he had made a decision.
"Madam, I've thought about it clearly."
Wei Jingwei held her chin up and looked at him with interest.
"Xia Ning wants to rely on herself. Xia Ning doesn't want to rely on the protection of Madam and Sister Lian'er forever."
"Ambitious."
A slight smile finally appeared on her face.
"From today on, your daily morning work will be handed over to others. You will go to the study to study. It may be more difficult for you to study late. In addition, you have to do homework after class. Do you think you can persist? .”
Xia Ning had long been looking forward to studying like Mei Yunli. When she heard that she could study, her face immediately turned red, her dark eyes were full of hope, and she nodded hurriedly.
It was as if she was afraid that Wei Jingwei would regret it if it was too late.
"Okay, if you haven't had breakfast, let Lian'er bring you some pastries. Today is your first time going to the study to study, so you have to behave well and don't embarrass the master."
"I understand, madam. Xia Ning will not let madam and master be in trouble."
Lian'er wrapped two pieces of pastry in a handkerchief and handed them over. Xia Ning stuffed them into her mouth three times, chewed them twice, and immediately went to the study.
Looking at his back, Wei Jingwei ordered: "I remember that there are some materials that the Liu family sent before that he can use, so I will use them to cut him some clothes."
"Miss, I'm curious about something. Since you let Xia Ning study hard, why do you need to spare him the work in the garden?" Lian'er asked doubtfully.
"You think things are too simple. If I do this suddenly, it will only bring trouble and danger to him. Think about it, if other people in Mei Mansion see that I am special to this child, , they are afraid of shaking Brother Cheng’s position, so they will definitely do something. That would be bad.”
Wei Jingwei shook his head slightly.
After breakfast, Mei Xiaoqin went to Hongxia Pavilion and learned housekeeping from Wei Jingwei.
She wore a rose-red dress, and rarely had only two hairpins in her hair. Even though she used a lot of makeup on her face, it was not difficult to tell that her complexion was not good.
"sister in law."
Wei Jingwei gave her a confused look. Mei Xiaoqin was used to being arrogant and domineering, and was rarely so polite.
Let alone her.
I think this matter has something to do with Grandma Zhou.
In recent days, she had heard a lot about it. After returning home, Grandma Zhou claimed that she was sick.
As soon as she left Mei Mansion, she made such a fuss. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that there must be a conflict with the young lady from the Mei family.
At this time, various opinions about Mei Xiaoqin were abounded in Beijing.
But it's not always a good thing.
"Well, my sister is here. You don't look good. Have you had breakfast?"
Wei Jingwei asked knowingly.
Sure enough, the smile on Mei Xiaoqin's face faded and she said, "I've used it. Maybe I didn't sleep well last night, so it's not a problem."
"Well, then you can learn from me from today on. Don't worry about Aunt Zhou. When you learn how to be a housekeeper, you can hold two banquets in the house by yourself. If you don't make any mistakes, your reputation will be It might be a lot better.”
After hearing that her reputation could actually improve, Mei Xiaoqin immediately cheered up and said she would study hard.
It's just that there are so many people coming to know about housekeeping, and many ladies from aristocratic families start learning it from an early age.
As long as Mei Xiaoqin makes no mistakes...
Wei Jingwei suddenly smiled when she thought of this.
But these are out of his control.
Here in the study, Mei Yunli has just sat down under the waiters.
The boy was busy arranging his exquisite four treasures of the study and books in order, when he saw an unexpected person walking in.
After Xia Ning walked through the door, he didn't even look at Mei Yunli's cold expression, and walked straight to the nearest empty seat to sit down.
She didn't even give him a look the whole time.
Just when he was about to get angry, he saw Lian'er following behind Xia Ning. Lian'er walked in and said with a smile: "Sir, my wife said, please teach one more person. Shu Xiu will continue to do this on the basis of his original promise to you. , add ten more."
Sir, I don’t mind. Anyway, teaching one is teaching, and teaching two is teaching, not to mention there are ten more.
He smiled: "You're welcome, madam. I will do my best."
After Lian'er said that, Meng'er left.
The husband started the class. Considering that Xia Ning had no learning foundation, the things taught in this class were relatively simple.
But Brother Cheng behind him couldn't concentrate.
He thought about what Lian'er said just now, that it was his mother who asked Xia Ning to study.
Doesn't his mother like him anymore?
Are you going to adopt Xia Ning as your adopted son?
This is not impossible.
Thinking of this, he looked at the back of Xia Ning's head with dark eyes, wishing he could see a hole.
I didn't take a word of what the teacher said to heart.
The gentleman above noticed the state of the two men and shook his head secretly.
After class, the teacher assigned the two of them another writing task.
"The passages you learned today, you go back and copy them ten times each. Understand the meaning, and I will do a spot check in class tomorrow."
"I understand, sir." Xia Ning said crisply.
Mei Yunli looked at Xia Ning with some disdain, he was just an ordinary gentleman, why did he act like this?
As expected, he was born as a servant.
You can't change your inferiority.
