Chapter 14
"Why you?" Seeing that she couldn't escape, Su Yining turned around, faced Xie Yu, and asked him.
Xie Yu lowered his eyes and looked at her without replying: "Answer my question first, why do you want to establish a female household?"
Su Yining lowered her head, not knowing how to answer, especially since the person who asked this question was Xie Yu, she didn't know what to say.
There were very few people in the Liang Dynasty who set up a female household, and there might not be one in ten years. First, ordinary people wanted to set up a female household and were punished because of the cumbersome procedures. Second, it sounded deviant to separate the female household from their original family. Most people They are all incomprehensible and tolerant.
Ordinary women will get engaged when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, and get married when they are older. There is really no need for an independent female household.
But Su Yining is nineteen now. Her marriage has failed and her family has not been close to each other. If she continues to sit back and wait for death as before, sooner or later Su Che and Zheng will randomly arrange a marriage and serve as a stepping stone for Su Dian and Su Yiru to get promoted. stepping stones.
No one can help her except herself.
Grandma is old and can only take care of her for a while. She still has to walk the road ahead on her own.
Since she didn't want to be taken advantage of, and she didn't want to hastily choose a marriage just to get married, then being an independent female household was the best choice for Su Yining.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Xie Yu didn't push her anymore. He took two steps back, stood up straight and looked her up and down.
"Are you wronged at home?" Xie Yu looked at her for a while and saw that she had specially dressed up today, so he asked himself.
Su Yining took off her silk hat, put it on the table beside her, and shook her head.
"Is anyone talking about you breaking off the engagement again?" Knowing that she would not easily explain the reason to him, Xie Yu patiently questioned her slowly.
In fact, the desire to establish a female household is more or less related to the annulment of the engagement. If it had not been for the annulment of the engagement, she would have married into the Xie family by now. How could she still have a female household?
But when Xie Yu asked, Su Yining didn't say anything and just shook her head.
Seeing that she just shook her head and said nothing, Xie Yu felt inexplicably irritated. In the past, she had a mouth as smart as a lark. In the school, everyone knows that the second girl of the Su family is not good at writing poetry, let alone painting, but she is the best in the school for being eloquent.
After only a few years of seeing each other, can a person's temperament change so much?
"It can't be because of me, right?" Xie Yu smiled mockingly, snorted, and said, "Afraid of my revenge? In order not to drag down the Su family, why not go out independently?"
Su Yining interrupted his random thoughts: "Don't make random guesses. I obviously asked Sister Shuangyi that day, and this matter should be handled by people from the Ministry of Household Affairs. How come you are here?"
"Well," Xie Yu hummed, looked at her and said calmly, "Why can't it be me?"
Not wanting to waste time with him by making any more detours, Su Yining blurted out: "Aren't you working in the Ministry of Rites? How could you get involved in the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs?"
The soundproofing of the private rooms in the teahouse is very good, secluded and quiet. At this moment, there were only two of them in the room, and there was silence around them. After Su Yining finished speaking, Xie Yu just looked at her without speaking, and the whole room became even more silent.
Su Yining was so frightened by his stare that she couldn't help but raise her hand and rub her cheek.
Xie Yu sat opposite her, gently took out a teacup from the center of the table with his slender fingers, filled it with tea, and handed it to Su Yining.
"You are very concerned about my affairs. You even know exactly where I am serving. It seems you are really afraid of my revenge." He said this slowly, his peach blossom eyelids raised slightly, and he looked lazily. Su Yining.
Su Yining's hand that was about to take the tea trembled, and her fingertips lightly rubbed against the back of Xie Yu's hand.
The moment their skin came into contact, Su Yining quickly retracted her hand and placed her hands on her knees.
Xie Yu raised his drooping eye mask and glanced at her calmly. His voice was clear but ambiguous: "What? You want me to feed you?"
As he spoke, he raised his wrist as if to feed the tea to Su Yining's mouth.
Su Yining quickly raised her hand to take it and drank it all.
"Aren't you afraid that I'll drug you?" Xie Yu put one hand on his knee, lightly knocked on the table with the other hand, and narrowed his eyes at Su Yining, "Weren't you very cautious before? Do you have to bring the female envoy in with you? "
The tea that Su Yining had just finished had already entered her stomach. Even if she was really drugged by him, she would not be able to spit it out. She turned her head and looked at Xie Yu, feeling helpless: "Don't make such a joke."
"Oh?" Xie Yu stopped, poured another cup of tea, and handed it over, "Are you ordering me? Or begging me?"
"With the relationship between you and me now, it seems that I don't have to listen to you." He said slowly.
"You are not my wife or fiancée, so why are you ordering me?"
Su Yining didn't speak, nor did she take the tea he handed her.
He probably went out today without taking any medicine. He didn't talk about serious business, but he talked a lot!
Seeing that Su Yining didn't answer, Xie Yu stopped insisting and retracted his hand directly, drinking the hot tea in the teacup in one gulp.
"That's what I just drank..." Su Yining raised her hand to stop it, but it was already too late.
The teacup still had her lipstick printed on it, and it was currently being held by Xie Yu in his hand, playing with it intentionally or unintentionally.
Xie Yu didn't seem to hear it. He poured another cup of hot tea, brought it to his mouth, and sipped it in small sips. As time passed, it seemed that he was really just here to drink tea and did not mention anything serious. Su Yining was extremely anxious and asked again: "Establishing a female household is a matter for the Ministry of Household Affairs, can you do it?"
"Aren't you a member of the Ministry of Etiquette?"
Hearing her question, Xie Yu paused and raised his eyebrows slightly: "I was just transferred to the household department today to be responsible for household registration."
How could it be such a coincidence that when she wanted to set up a female household, he happened to be transferred here to take charge of this matter? Su Yining frowned: "Why is it such a coincidence?"
Xie Yu was still drinking tea, and he didn't know what attracted him to today's tea. He just didn't drink enough. Su Yining frowned and looked at him. Xie Yu said calmly, "It's not a coincidence. I had a fight with the third prince on purpose, and he drove me to the household department."
Worried that Su Yining had missed the key point, Xie Yu added.
"I did it on purpose."
How could anyone deliberately offend the popular prince? Xie Yu was really seriously ill, and Su Yining opened her mouth in disbelief. But she soon realized that he meant what he said, and he meant it for herself.
He was transferred to the Household Department on purpose. Knowing that he wanted to establish a female household, he went and took the job.
"You, what do you want to do?" She was a little confused. Could it be that he had gone in such a big circle to deliberately stumble her?
Xie Yu took out the paperwork from his sleeve, placed it on the table, and said calmly: "All procedures for establishing a female household must go through my hands and require my approval."
"If I don't allow it, no one can help you."
Su Yining stood up and asked him: "So, you didn't want to let me successfully establish a female household, you just wanted to stumble and humiliate me."
When she said this, she was a little surprised. After all, Xie Yu in her impression was definitely not such a person. Although they had broken off their engagement and the Xie and Su families were at loggerheads, no matter how they said they still had some friendship as classmates, he would not embarrass her like this.
Seeing her standing up, Xie Yu also stood up, looked at her condescendingly, and said slowly: "Yes, I did it on purpose, deliberately stumbling you so that you couldn't do anything, so you had to come and beg me."
"I had originally planned to wait until you hit the wall everywhere and had no way to ask for help, and then I would send someone to lure you to come to me and let you take the initiative to ask for help."
"At that time, I have what you want most in my hands, and you can only beg me in a low voice. Even if I make some unreasonable demands, you can only grit your teeth and agree."
"Whatever I want, you have to agree to."
"Let me take whatever I want."
Su Yining backed away continuously, her eyes filled with disbelief as she looked at Xie Yu in horror.
"Are you afraid?" Xie Yu walked up to her, forced her into the corner, and asked her with lowered eyes.
