"Can you hear it from here?"
Geng Xingchen put her ear close to the courtyard wall and listened carefully. She didn't know whether the people inside didn't speak or the sound was too low. Anyway, she didn't hear anything.
"You can't hear it, and I can't hear it. Well, Bai Zhi shouldn't be able to hear it either."
"Fifth sister, you didn't even try?"
Geng Xingchen felt a little aggrieved, "I can't hear you. What are we doing here?"
After just getting the news from Shiliu that Geng Xingbing had indeed entered the main house, they walked around to the foot of a crape myrtle tree in the west of the main courtyard, which was the closest location to the back window of the main house.
Of course, this was what Geng Xingshuang said. Geng Xingchen had never done eavesdropping before.
Thinking of this, Geng Xingchen looked at Geng Xingshuang in surprise. Fifth sister knew this, could it be...
Geng Xingchen's thoughts were almost written on his face, how could Geng Xingshuang not understand.
"My hearing is not much better than yours. I can't hear, but there are people who can."
"Is it a painted curtain? Hey, where is the painted curtain?"
Only then did Geng Xingchen realize that the painting curtain that had been following Geng Xingshuang disappeared.
"Girl, the painting curtain just left."
When leaving the main courtyard gate, Bai Zhi saw the fifth girl winking at Hua Liang, and Hua Liang left quickly. However, her own girl didn't say anything, so naturally she didn't dare to ask.
Unexpectedly, my girl didn't notice the curtain leaving at all.
Bai Zhi thought that the third wife had always wanted to marry the sixth girl into the Yongqing Houfu, and her heart felt heavy. With the sixth girl's straightforward and simple temperament, if she entered a high-end and deep house like the Yongqinghoufu, everyone in that group would be eager to marry her. Living among her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law, Bai Zhi simply couldn't imagine how her girls would be bullied.
"coming!"
Jinbao suddenly spoke, and Bai Zhi came back to her senses. She subconsciously looked towards Geng Xingshuang, but she didn't expect that Geng Xingshuang also happened to look at her, with something deep in his eyes.
Bai Zhi was slightly shocked, feeling that in this short moment, the fifth girl seemed to have read through her inner thoughts.
"Is it Jin Bao?"
Geng Xingchen reacted quickly this time. She knew that Jinbao was very strong. Could it be that her ears were also particularly good.
"Jinbao, come on, listen to what's being said inside?"
Geng Xingshuang waved to Jinbao. Although Jinbao looked chubby, his movements were agile. He scurried under the crape myrtle tree with just a swipe. She didn't even need to put her ear to the courtyard wall like Geng Xingchen did, but she heard the sound coming from the main room. The sound comes.
"Grandma, my granddaughter has been thinking about it all morning. Really... she really can't watch Shen Shui fall into such a predicament, so... so... can Shen Shui come back?"
Jinbao repeated what was said in the main room word for word. It was Geng Xingbing who was speaking.
"Third girl, have you told your mother about this?"
Jin Bao lowered his voice and his voice became old and deep. This was Xia's voice.
"Grandma, this is my personal money saved. I heard that Shen Shui's net worth is fifty taels. This should be enough."
"Third sister is really rich."
Geng Xingchen murmured in a low voice. She suddenly had a hunch that there was a high probability that this unmarried young lady in the house would be the poorest one.
Others say they are poor, but they are not necessarily poor. She is truly poor if she does not say she is poor.
"Jinbao, can't you hear me?"
Seeing that Jin Bao didn't speak for a long time, Geng Xingchen was confused.
Jinbao shook his head, "No one is talking now."
After about ten breaths of silence, Jinbao began to repeat again.
"Third Miss, don't you know what Madam raised the money for? You have this money, why didn't you take it out earlier?"
This is what Mother Qiao is asking. As a servant, it is naturally against the rules for Mother Qiao to do this. However, with Madam Uncle's acquiescence or even hint, she is solving problems for her master.
Geng Xingbing knew that if he took out fifty taels of silver, he would definitely be suspected and questioned.
But her mind was too confused. Tan's mother's words were like thunder splitting open her head. At that moment, her world was shattered. She almost thought that there was something wrong with her ears, or that her brain was really broken and she could only watch. He saw Tan's mother's mouth opening and closing in front of him, with an anxious and... harsh look on her face.
She is completely different from the previous mother Tan who loved her so much.
But she still endured and listened to Tan's mother's words, and her chaotic mind gradually began to calm down.
She didn't know if what Tan's mother said was true, but she didn't dare and couldn't take the risk.
So she had to save Shen Shui, and she had to stabilize Tan's mother first. As for the future, as long as she was given time, she could always solve it.
"How did the third sister answer?"
Seeing that Jin Bao didn't move for a long time, Geng Xingchen couldn't help but ask.
Jinbao: "Woooooooo..."
Geng Xingchen had doubts on his head and looked at Geng Xingshuang with a guilty conscience. Could it be that Jinbao didn't hear clearly what was said just now? When she asked this question, it hit her so hard that she actually cried?
Geng Xingshuang laughed, "It must be Third Sister who is crying."
Jinbao nodded, "It was the third girl who cried, but she is talking now."
"What are you talking about?" Geng Xingshuang's eyes were bright and she was extremely curious. Geng Xingbing took the wrong medicine today and even used the crying trick. Wasn't she always the most disdainful of this kind of petty behavior?
Geng Xingchen felt that the light in the fifth sister's eyes was like...like the sun in summer, and she couldn't help but want to retreat because of the scorching heat.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...I know...my grandmother is doing it for my father, and my father...is doing it for us children. I know that grandma and granddaughter are not the kind of people who don't understand importance and are ungrateful, but... But grandma, Shen Shui is... is... the daughter of my father, the sister of my granddaughter, and your granddaughter... As for these fifty taels of silver, it is the pocket money given by my grandma every time I go to my grandma's house. My granddaughter knows My family is not well-off, so I have never been willing to spend it. It is also for emergency use. I was planning to use it this time, but later I realized that the money I had was not enough. My grandmother and mother also thought of a way, so I put it aside for the time being. .”
Jinbao repeated Geng Xingbing's words in the main room almost verbatim. Whether it was Xia Shi and Qiao's mother in the room, or Geng Xingshuang, Geng Xingchen, Bai Zhi and others outside the room, they were all stunned by Geng Xingbing's words.
"What did the third sister say?"
"What did you say?"
Geng Xingchen and Jinbao's voices sounded almost at the same time.
Of course, Jinbao was repeating the words of Mrs. Xia.
Geng Xingshuang had a hunch that Geng Xingbing might tell her some information that she didn't know but was interested in today, but she didn't expect the melon to be so big.
She waved her hand, signaling Geng Xingchen to stay quiet and continue listening.
"I said that silver is..."
"Who asked you about money? Shen Shui is Lao Er's son. Who told you this?"
Geng Xingbing couldn't tell from Xia's face whether she knew about this, so she could only follow what Tan's mother taught her: "Yes... Yan's mother said that when the family bought the person, it was because she knew Shen Shui was her father’s child, so she bought her even though Shen Shui was only two years old at the time.”
"Mr. Yan? How did she know about it? Who gave birth to Shen Shui? When did she tell you about it?"
Xia asked one question after another. Geng Xingbing seemed to be confused by these questions. He answered after a long while: "My granddaughter doesn't know how Yan's mother knew about this. Shen Shui's mother is not known, and her granddaughter doesn't know. It's not Yan." What my mother took the initiative to tell me was a previous chat between Yan’s mother and Liu Dazhu’s family. My granddaughter happened to be passing by and accidentally overheard it.
Grandma... When my granddaughter knew that Shen Shui was going to be taken away by Mrs. Yu, I didn't dare to say it. She did have selfish motives. I was afraid that my father would know about the partiality and that my mother would be sad if she knew about it, so I kept hesitating and didn't dare to say it. But ...But this morning, my granddaughter felt really uneasy and couldn't bear it, so...that's why...I asked my grandmother to put her own health first and not to be too angry. If grandma is really angry, just...just hit her granddaughter! "
Although Geng Xingshuang, Geng Xingchen and others could not see the situation in the room, they could still imagine the scene inside at this moment: Geng Xingbing had tears in her eyes, kneeling and stretching out her hands to show that she could be punished, Xia's face Tie Qing, Qiao's mother, Lu Wu and other servants looked silent.
