Chapter 14 Purse
Xie Fengyue found an excuse and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Wang Yan, who looked complicated. She stood up and sat back down again and again.
"Is the girl feeling better?"
Xie Fengyue was suspicious, but still replied calmly: "I have always been in good health, and now I am fine."
After hearing this, Wang Yan first stood up and saluted, and then asked very sincerely: "Can you please go to the bookstore with me tomorrow?" He made up his mind to test and find out the purpose of this girl's behavior.
As soon as Xie Fengyue saw him standing up and saluting, alarm bells rang in her heart and she wanted to refuse, but she immediately changed her mind after he finished speaking. Now all she needs to do is make people misunderstand that this Young Master Yan has an affair with her, so isn't going around with him just giving her a pillow when she falls asleep?
She smiled shyly: "Do you need me to do anything?"
"Girl, just show me which bookstore these counterfeit papers come from." Wang Yan kept his eyes fixed on her, not wanting to miss the slightest abnormality in her expression.
Xie Fengyue said nothing while twisting the paper in her hand, but her eyes were focused on the word "Tang" engraved in the lower right corner.
"Are there every piece of paper?"
Wang Yan replied seriously: "Only one of the papers in this knife is missing, and the rest have the emblem of the Tang family in Beihai."
Xie Fengyue's heart skipped a beat, and her mouth felt as if she had eaten coptis. She was meddling in this matter.
If the paper produced by an ordinary family requires 30% tax to be paid to the Tang family, the price must be double that of the Tang family. This is an unwritten rule among the families. But this paper pretending to be made by the Tang family not only paid no tax, but even the price was a few cents lower. This was simply taking advantage of both sides. How could an ordinary family dare to do such a thing to offend the head of a family?
Wang Yan seemed to have noticed Xie Fengyue's dilemma: "If Miss Xie is in trouble and is inconvenient to go with Wang, you can explain it."
Xie Fengyue didn't want to leave the impression that her words didn't mean what she said, so she could only swallow the Coptis chinensis: "It's okay, I'm just wondering where this paper came from."
Wang Yan pondered for a moment: "At first, the source of these papers was the Longxi area. After later investigation, it was discovered that the place where they were first sold was Chen County."
Xie Fengyue almost covered her ears in a hurry, shouting in her heart: "Please stop talking!!" She quickly poked the wound with her nails, and her eyes were filled with tears and her lips turned white: "Lang Jun, I have a headache, so I have to go back to the room to rest. ”
Without waiting for Wang Yan to finish, she stood up and walked out, her steps so eager that even Songshan noticed something fishy.
"Mr. Xie, Miss Xie seems to be ill. Her steps are a bit unsteady when she walks." Song Shan said.
Wang Yan looked at the closed door and replied in a deep voice: "This person must have noticed that I saw the paper in her room that day, so he came here specifically to show his innocence and to confuse me."
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Songshan moved his elm head, but still didn't understand what Lang Jun said, so he simply changed the subject.
His eyes lingered on the delicate purse: "My husband is so lucky. There are girls giving purses wherever he goes."
Wang Yan then took the purse in his hand and inspected it carefully. His fingers stayed on the small moon character and responded: "It is indeed very beautifully embroidered."
Songshan was a little surprised. How could he know about his husband's picky temper? It's not like those girls didn't give away their wallets in the past, but Mr. Lang said they were vulgar and he just threw them away after just one look.
He was very curious about what kind of embroidery work could satisfy Lang Jun, so he said seriously: "Lang Jun, can you show me this?"
Wang Yan was feeling troubled. He glanced coldly sideways and lightly opened his lips: "Get lost"
As soon as Xie Fengyue entered the room, the gentle look on her face became chapped. She looked slumped, but she did not forget about the business: "Zhezhi, you go to the accountant with Hua Rui to pay twenty taels of silver. "I'm going to do it with you tomorrow," she said deliberately.
Zhe Zhi's face was full of confusion: "I can go alone, and I will stay with Hua Rui to take care of me. How can I leave the girl by my side?"
Xie Fengyue ignored her, turned to Huarui and said, "Twenty taels of silver, for traveling with Young Master Yan." ”
Huarui nodded respectfully: "I will definitely explain it properly, girl, don't worry." After saying that, she pulled the branch aside and left.
When the room became quiet, Xie Fengyue took off the hat from her head and her expression completely darkened.
In the past, Xie Jin would always send someone to deliver some items when she was wronged in the Xie Mansion, even if others didn't come. But she has been "sick" for three days, and he has never come to visit her.
She lowered her eyes and thought. She couldn't put eggs in one basket. She knew this since she was a child. If rumors spread in the future that she had an affair with Young Master Yan and he came forward to clarify it, wouldn't it be a waste of money? Xie Fengyue pursed her lips and rummaged through the sewing basket to find the indigo double-sided begonia embroidered purse. Looking at the somewhat scarce stitches on the broken branches, she sighed, then rummaged through the basket to choose a color, and also embroidered a small moon character under the begonia leaves.
After breaking the branch and returning to the room, he kept mumbling without even touching the stool: "Those people are so abominable, they are so mouthy! If the young lady is having an affair with that young man, I will rush up and touch her." He kissed her mouth, and the pistil had to be pulled back by me. I was so angry!”
After she finished speaking, she stared at Hua Rui: "It's all your fault. Why did you have to meet someone and say that the money you went to collect was for traveling with Young Master Yan? It's not like you don't know how talkative the servants in the house are. ”
Hua Rui lowered her head and did not reply, looking like a victim.
Xie Fengyue looked amused, and stopped Zhi Zhi again and again to open her mouth: "Huarui, you will give this to Mr. Xie Dalang for your merits."
Hua Rui held her purse and looked at the sparse threads with her hands shaking: "Girl... do you need me to change this stitch?"
Xie Fengyue waved her hand: "No problem, just send it over."
Hua Rui's footsteps were very fast. Xie Fengyue had just drank the tea made from broken branches when Hua Rui's voice came from the door: "Da Langjun, let me go and report. My girl just drank the medicine and may have fallen asleep."
When Xie Fengyue heard this, she blinked towards Zhezhi. Zhezhi understood quickly this time. He took the hot tea from her hand and walked to the window, emptying the teapot in two or three strokes.
Xie Fengyue also quickly lay back on the bed.
"It's okay, I've never seen your girl look like." The voice came closer and closer.
Zhezhi picked up Mrs. Tang and opened the bead curtain and went to the outside room: "Lang Jun, please warm your hands when the weather is cold."
Without stopping, Xie Jin took the broken branch handed over by Mrs. Tang and walked inside. The two people behind him exchanged glances before following him inside.
Seeing Xie Fengyue lying on the bed, her face still a little pale, he frowned, turned around and scolded the two people behind him: "Why are you serving me, you don't even close the window?"
She folded the branches in two and three steps and quickly closed the window. Xie Fengyue then spoke in a soft voice: "Brother, I'm healed. I don't blame them for opening the window because I disliked the stuffiness in the room."
Seeing the girl speaking, Zhi Zhi and Hua Rui withdrew very wisely.
After hearing this, Xie Jin's face improved slightly, but his tone was still stiff: "Do you think your face looks good? You should have a good rest while you are sick, why should you embroider a purse?"
Xie Fengyue's eyebrows were curved: "I think spring is about to start, and my brother must change his clothes and accessories to be brighter." After saying this, she looked downcast: "I can only embroider spring purses for my brother. ”
Xie Jin suddenly remembered something. His good sister will be married to the King of Wu in the spring.
"You should take good care of your health first, and we can talk about the future later."
Xie Fengyue nodded lightly and said nothing.
There was silence in the room for a while.
"I have been here for the past few days."
Xie Fengyue quickly reached out and covered Xie Jin's mouth.
The faint fragrance of peony mixed with medicinal fragrance on her hands made Xie Jin's mind wander for a moment.
"Brother, stop talking. If you don't want to come see me, I must have done something wrong." Xie Fengyue sounded aggrieved.
Xie Jin suddenly felt very distressed.
He gently held her hand and said, "I'm being petty. I don't want you to have any contact with Young Master Yan."
This sentence made Xie Fengyue feel confused. How is she going to respond? Will she accompany Young Master Yan on a trip tomorrow?
(End of chapter)