Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

"You—" the beautiful woman was stunned, and asked Su Yuan with a bit of resentment, "You are a girl, how can you care so much about gold and silver?"

Su Yuan looked at the woman's clothes, and his eyes stayed for a moment on the jade bracelet on the woman's wrist and the pearl hairpin on her head.

"I can't help it. I have been poor since I was a child. It is difficult to eat enough. How can I not care about money? Who doesn't need to spend money to live these days? Madam looks quite rich. She is old and well-maintained, with slender hands. , I think these years must have lived a very good life, pampered and pampered."

Su Yuan's words were not directly ironic, but they were more ironic than direct irony.The daughter is so poor that she has nothing to eat, and she has not seen her mother for more than ten years, but her mother wears gold and silver and is extremely rich.And when the mother first met her daughter, she even accused the poor daughter of caring about money and vulgar things.

Madam realized that her words were abrupt, so she hurriedly said softly: "Yuanyuan, listen to my explanation, back then—"

"What did you do back then? I was only a little older at that time, and I don't have any memory. It's not just what you say, it's not interesting."

Su Yuan looked at the pearl and gold hairpin on the woman's head again.

"Since Madam doesn't care about these vulgar things of gold and silver, how about giving them up to me? Just now I saw a few beggars on the street in poor clothes. They are very pitiful. If I help Madam treat these vulgar things as good deeds, it must be good."

"You—" the beautiful woman was so angry that she trembled all over, and was speechless for a while.The pearl gold walker she was wearing shook violently along with her body shaking, which made the pearl walker even more glittering.

Seeing Su Yuan's eloquence, Bai Yutang couldn't help but chuckle.

It's not shameful for his ancestor to do so!

"Yuanyuan, how can you talk to me like this? I'm really your own mother! You didn't even listen to my explanation of the situation back then, so why do you hate and loathe me so much? Your father and I are innocent. Calculations—" The more the beautiful woman spoke, the more she choked up, and she couldn't continue speaking halfway, she wept sadly and pitifully.

Su Yuan felt that the woman deliberately half-spoken, making people curious and want to ask more.She ignored the woman, but looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and asked her why with his eyes.

"Old Ancestor, now someone is going to admit me, why don't you say a few words of justice?" Su Yuan's tone was cute, like a well-behaved child who is filial to his elders.

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, then raised the corners of his mouth uncontrollably, cooperated with Su Yuan, and said to the beautiful woman with an old-fashioned and stern expression: "I am her ancestor, if you recognize her, you have to pass me first and call out first." Come and listen, there will be something to say."

Since Bai Yutang is the ancestor recognized by Su Yuan, and the beautiful woman wants to recognize Su Yuan, then he should also be the ancestor of the beautiful woman.

This makes sense.

Don't you want to recognize your relatives?Let's recognize each other and see who can hurt who more.

The beautiful woman's eyes widened and she couldn't believe her ears!

She was actually teased by two young children. She was embarrassed and angry, and her tears fell like beads on a string.

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly patted her wife on the back comfortingly, wiped away her tears carefully, and angrily reprimanded Su Yuan.

"How could Miss Su humiliate her mother like this!"

"No, I respect my deceased mother very much, and hope that she will be safe under the Nine Springs."

After Su Yuan corrected his tone gently, he looked at Mrs. Wang coldly.

"You are very interesting. You are allowed to come to insult me, but I am not allowed to humiliate me back. The dogs raised in Kaifeng Mansion are not as unreasonable as you."

After saying that, Su Yuan and Bai Yutang went into the Kaifeng mansion, and ordered the doorman to close the door tightly.

"If there are still people who dare to make unreasonable troubles in front of the door, they will be served with water to wash their feet. If they insist on refusing to leave, they will be punished as offending the government and sent to the cell!"

When the beautiful woman and Mrs. Wang heard about the footwashing water and being imprisoned, their faces changed drastically, and they dared not approach them again.

The master and servant hurried into the carriage.

Then, the woman's weeping could be heard faintly in the carriage.

Mrs. Li was out of breath from crying, no matter how much Mrs. Wang tried to persuade her, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.Especially when she was thinking about Su Yuan's sentence "May you come to humiliate me", she actually thought that her behavior of coming to admit a woman was a humiliation to her!

"She was born in the countryside and grew up in the city. I heard that she can't read all the words. She is a vulgar and shallow woman. She is ignorant and lacks education. Madam, don't be as angry as her, it is not good to hurt your health." It's gone." Mrs. Wang repeatedly comforted Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li stopped crying for a while, and looked at Mrs. Wang with tears in her eyes: "Why do you think she hates me so much? It's clearly the first time we've met. Could it be that she—"

"Impossible." Mrs. Wang explained to Mrs. Li in a low voice, "The servant has already inquired carefully, and the old catcher died suddenly, and he didn't explain anything."

……

After Su Yuan and Bai Yutang parted, they went back to their room.After a while, she saw Sun He and Zhan Zhao coming to her together.

"Is something wrong?"

"I heard that the lady came to see you in person, have you seen each other just now?" Zhan Zhao deliberately explained to Su Yuan, "When I inquired about the situation in the morning, I casually said, 'If you want to recognize your relatives, you should be more sincere. ’, I didn’t expect them to come this afternoon.”

"It turns out that Brother Zhan caused this trouble, so you owe me a meal." Su Yuan immediately developed a new idea of ​​"creating the environment from the heart", and exchanged his unlucky encounters for meals.

"Okay, please eat three meals!"

After Zhan Zhao simply listened to the story, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect Su Yuan to be so resistant to confessing his relatives, even refusing to listen to the woman's explanation.

"It's okay if you don't recognize it, but why don't you hear the reason first?"

Su Yuan: "Didn't Brother Zhan ask you this morning? Instead of listening to their crying and miserable narration, it's better to just listen to Brother Zhan's brief explanation, which is clear and clear. To me, they are strangers. I don't want to hear their sobs. Talking about feelings. The matter of Mrs. Xu has not happened with me yet. "

Zhan Zhao immediately understood Su Yuan's mood, and briefly told her what he had learned.

"The owner of Mrs. Wang's surname is Li, and she is the head wife of the Su family of the imperial merchant. She claimed that your father is Su Jinjing, the head of the Su family now. You are the youngest daughter of Li Shi and Su Jinjing, and your sister was born with you. Su Xi, it's only half an hour before and after you, but you don't look alike."

Su Yuan nodded, understood, they are fraternal twins.I have also expressed emotion before that it is relatively rare for Xu Miaocui's younger brother and sister to be twins. I didn't expect that the incident of the twins happened to me.

But it is very reassuring, as long as there is no the same face as the most direct and obvious evidence of connection, they will never even think about recognizing her back in their dreams.

Then, Zhan Zhao told Su Yuan what Mrs. Wang told him in the morning:

When Su Yuan was just born, she was secretly carried away by a midwife who held a grudge against Li.After the Su family found her, they searched everywhere for her for a long time, but they couldn't find her.Later, the midwife was caught and punished by the family law to ask the midwife Su Yuan's whereabouts. The midwife refused to tell at first, but after using severe punishment, she said that she threw Su Yuan into the wild to feed the wolves that night.Su Jinjing and his wife were so sad that they gave up searching.

And just a few days ago, someone came to Su's residence and told Su Jinjing and his wife that Su Yuan was actually still alive.

This person is exactly the younger sister of the midwife, Xue Shi. Xue Shi saw her sister doing evil with her own eyes, and because she saw the child as pitiful, she followed her and picked up the child.She knew the old policeman Su Feng and knew that he had a good heart. After the death of his wife, he had no intention of renewing his life, and he always wanted to adopt a child, and he was going to work in other places in a few days.

Xue Shi gave the baby to Su Feng, and Su Feng raised Su Yuan and treated Su Yuan as his own.In order to make the child more intimate with him, he naturally concealed the fact that she was not his own.

Mrs. Xue has been guilty of this matter all these years. She was seriously ill and didn't want to bring this secret into the soil, so she confessed the truth to Mrs. Li a few days ago.

When Mrs. Li learned that her daughter was still alive, she was so excited that she immediately sent someone to find Su Feng's whereabouts. When she learned that Su Yuan was in Kaifeng Mansion, she immediately sent Mrs. Wang to Kaifeng Mansion to pick him up.

"So it sounds like Sister Su's biological parents are not only innocent, but also poor. They lost their daughter after being retaliated by the midwife, and they were deceived by her into thinking that their daughter is no longer alive."

Sun He sighed distressedly, and lamented to Su Yuan that they had misunderstood the woman before.It turned out that the other party really had a hard time!

"Sister Su, you have a very hard life, but now it's finally come to an end, and it's a good thing to be reunited with your family. Congratulations, Sister Su!"

Su Yuan gave Sun He a cup of herbal tea, telling her to drink some tea to calm her mind.

After obediently pouring a sip of herbal tea into his mouth, Sun He complained in a low voice, "I'm very calm."

Zhan Zhao knew that what happened to Mrs. Xu would hurt Su Yuan greatly, so he naturally understood what she was worried about.

"I have sent people to Zhengzhou to check the matter, and I will be back within a day. However, the Su family is a well-known imperial merchant with a huge fortune. They are neither short of money nor people, so they should not plot anything against you. There are many good people, if they are really your biological parents, they shouldn't harm you."

"If we can find any clues when we go to Zhengzhou, it will be a disservice to his family's reputation as a huge fortune."

Zhan Zhao was stunned, and looked at Su Yuan puzzled.

"This story sounds good. I picked myself up completely and seemed innocent. The people involved either died or were seriously ill. It is impossible to prove whether it is true. There are still some twists and turns. Provoke the listener to tears."

When Su Yuan said this, he specifically looked at Sun He. Obviously, this point has been confirmed by Sun He.

"But the more stories like this, the more suspicious they are."

Su Yuan asked Zhan Zhao if he had thought about it. The Su family has a big business, and the master's family must be surrounded by maids and mother-in-law. What's more, the hostess' childbirth is a major event, and everyone will pay attention to the mother and baby.

How could it be possible for a midwife to successfully take the newborn away from the Su Mansion because of her revenge and betrayal?

"Besides, since they are twins, they should be put together. Since the midwife took her anger out on the baby, she obviously hated Mrs. Li. Since she wanted revenge, why didn't she take two of them away? Why was there one left? "

"Perhaps the two babies were separated at that time, after all, they were born half an hour later." Sun He reminded.

"Then I was born later, so I deserve more attention. Why did I get lost?"

Sun He opened his mouth, but also felt that he couldn't explain clearly.Not to mention the wealthy imperial merchants like the Su family, it was the wife of the bodyguard of her family's Dongfeng Bodyguard Bureau who gave birth. It was surrounded by a group of people, and it was impossible for them to lose their children casually!

"My head!" Sun He hit his head with an empty teacup, "How could I have been fooled by that story just now!"

Zhan Zhao thought about it for a moment, and was deeply aware of his negligence.In retrospect, like Sun He, he was deceived by the appearance of this story.

This matter needs to be treated with caution, thoroughly investigated, and not rushed.

After Zhan Zhao left, Sun He hurried to close the door.

Before closing the door, she poked her neck around the door to make sure no one was eavesdropping.

Seeing that she looked like a thief, Su Yuan immediately asked her, "What are you doing?"

"It's too complicated to recognize relatives. Who knows what they are. If the boss doesn't want to recognize them, then don't recognize them. I support the boss." What Sun He cares most about now is not the matter of recognizing relatives, but what her boss told her this morning. The situation of Bai Yutang going out.

Sun He excitedly asked Su Yuan how he felt.

"Master Jiexin is a great good advisor, he is upright and innocent, he is a man of great wisdom in Buddhism and Daoism, after talking with him for a few words, his heart feels peaceful and peaceful, and he feels very good!

However, there are two regrets about going to Daxiangguo Temple: one cannot worship the master as a teacher, and the other cannot stay in Daxiangguo Temple to become a monk. "

It was rare for Su Yuan to seriously answer Sun He's question.

Sun He asked Su Yuan this question originally to care about whether her relationship with Bai Yutang was progressing.In the end, the relationship didn't work out, so what else did she hear?The eldest of her family wants to become a nun!

What vigilance master, so evil?She actually wanted to trick her sister Su away!

"You should pay a visit to him when you have time, it will definitely benefit you a lot." Su Yuan strongly recommended.

"Hey, good!" Sun He agreed with a smile on his lips, but he murmured in his heart that she didn't want to see her.

Even a person as smart as Boss Su was almost fooled into becoming a monk by him. If a person like her who has no roots in his head really went, wouldn't he be fooled to death?

"Is there nothing else, you just think about becoming a monk in this beautiful morning?" Sun He asked unwillingly.

Of course there are other things, I went to Yaoguang Tower for a full meal.

But Su Yuan won't tell Sun He about this, she must be sad that she didn't call her.

Su Yuan shook his head and said no more.

Sun He looked at Su Yuan eagerly, as if she had a lot to say, but in the end she scratched her head and said nothing.

She really wanted to bring together the two powerful people she admired the most, but why was it so difficult?Obviously, the two are very suitable and compatible in all aspects.

When she was sleeping last night, Sun He had already sketched the wedding scene of Su Yuan and Bai Yutang in her mind, and she even imagined what their child would look like.

One is stern and gorgeous, the other is graceful and beautiful, and both of them are masters. The child they will give birth to must be wonderful, with brains, appearance, and martial arts, unparalleled in the world!

No, she can't give up her lofty dream, she has to keep working hard.

Sun He hurried to find Bai Yutang.

It was not in vain that she walked around the Kaifeng mansion twice, and finally let her meet someone.

Sun He told Bai Yutang about the situation of the Su family that Zhan Zhao had mentioned, and scolded that the Su family was the best at deceiving people with stories.

"There was Mrs. Xu in the front, and Lu Yufeng in the back. If I come to Su's house again, I'm afraid Sister Su won't be able to bear it. She looks like she doesn't care, but which woman's mind is not delicate and sensitive? Who is deceived by a close relative? If you get hurt, won't you be sad?"

After Sun He finished speaking in a miserable tone, he asked Bai Yutang again: "I heard that sister Su wanted to become a monk in Daxiangguo Temple, is it true?"

Bai Yutang responded with a deep 'hmm'.

"My God, Sister Su is so sad that she is tired of the world and wants to become a monk once and for all!" Sun He howled sadly, wiping her eyes with a handkerchief while pretending to sob.

Naturally, this little trick of hers couldn't escape Bai Yutang's eyes, Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and immediately warned her to speak straight and don't play tricks.

But the yamen servants who happened to pass by didn't know this situation, they happened to hear the sentence Sun He cried out loudly.

They turned their heads and spread the word. It didn't take long for everyone in Kaifeng Mansion to know that Su Yuan was insulted as a possessor of a bad spirit because of repeated unlucky cases. She suffered all kinds of grievances and criticisms. I want to become a monk for the rest of my life.

Discourse will inevitably produce deviations in the process of dissemination, and many communicators will add a sentence or two of their own judgments and feelings.

Because everyone in the Kaifeng Mansion felt that Su Yuan had a miserable life experience and suffered all kinds of grievances since he was a lonely child.So when this story was spread, Su Yuan appeared in the most miserable situation, which attracted everyone in Kaifeng Mansion to show more sympathy, pity and love for her.

Bai Yutang finally went to find Su Yuan.

He has met Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang, which is quite interesting to the master and servant.

That Mrs. Wang seems to be a stubborn slave, and she is very powerful in fighting against others.In fact, she listened to Li Shi's orders. For example, when Li Shi called her in the car before, she immediately ran over like a dog.

From a servant to a master, since Mrs. Li can allow a servant like Mrs. Wang to be her confidant, there must be something similar to Mrs. Wang in her nature.That being the case, what good will Mrs. Li be! .

When mentioning Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang expressed a little dissatisfaction with him: "He didn't realize that there is something wrong with this story?"

"Brother Zhan has kindness in his heart and is upright. He naturally hopes that everyone in this world will be good. Unlike us, we first judge others with malice." Su Yuan sighed.

After Bai Yutang heard this, his eyes froze slightly, and he turned to face Su Yuan squarely.

She put herself in the same camp as him, and it was accurate.

"Do you believe that human nature is inherently good or inherently evil?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Evil." Su Yuan replied without hesitation, "Life is selfish. If you don't have enough to eat, you will scream. If you have something interesting, you will want to take it for yourself. It is to educate people to cultivate their morality, which is different from other livestock."

"That's why you judge others maliciously first, it's just a defensive mind, and it's not a fault. Why are you sighing?"

"Sigh, I also want to judge others with the greatest kindness, but the world doesn't seem to give me a chance."

Su Yuan seemed to say it casually, but in fact he meant it.During the reincarnation game in the doomsday, she asked God many times why it was her.

"Heaven will send a great mission to human beings, and they must first work hard on their hearts and minds..." Bai Yutang said one of the most famous words in "Mencius", telling Su Yuan, "Those who achieve great things will suffer hardships. You are destined to be different. Only common people have this catastrophe."

"That's a good statement!" Su Yuan quickly praised, "No wonder Wu Ye became friends with Master Jie Xin. I think Wu Ye is enlightened and sophisticated at a young age. If you become a monk, you must have the talent to understand Taoism and practice Zen. He is an eminent monk who is more formidable than Master Vigilance."

Bai Yutang disdained: "Don't talk about it, I am too murderous, unlike you, I want to become a monk."

Inexplicably, there was a bit of resentment in the tone of the second half of the sentence.

"I did it on a whim, so don't laugh at me, Fifth Lord."

Su Yuan smiled mischievously, and suddenly saw something falling out of Bai Yutang's sleeve.It was a piece of paper, folded in half, with the words 'Di Bao' written in large characters on the front.

Gongsun Ce has seen this kind of mansion newspaper Su Yuan quite a lot. It is equivalent to the official newspaper of the Song Dynasty. Some government news and documents that need to be conveyed are copied on it for the reading of yamen and officials at all levels.

The mansion report is too official, and it talks about the important affairs of the court, which is not interesting.Interesting tabloids run by private individuals in Bianjing. They talk about all sorts of messy things, not to mention some scandals about some big families. It's quite interesting to read.

However, these tabloids are all produced in private and circulated in private. They are not that serious, and it is not easy to see them in Kaifeng Mansion.Su Yuan also only occasionally borrowed from the store that subscribed to the tabloid when he was eating out, and took a look at it.

Su Yuan casually recommended the tabloid to Bai Yutang.Bai Yutang really listened to it, and immediately ordered Bai Fu to order a copy.

The next day, the people Zhan Zhao sent to Zhengzhou to investigate came back on fast horses.

Really answered Su Yuan's words, I didn't find any useful news.He managed to meet Mrs. Xue, she was indeed seriously ill, and time was running out, she was so weak that she struggled to breathe, it was really hard to ask anything, even more difficult to tell from her pale and sickly face, she Which one is true and which one is false.

"This subordinate has specifically inquired with several servants of the Su family, and their opinions are similar to those of Mrs. Wang. However, they all entered the Su family within the past ten years, and they have not found any older servants.

I asked the old neighbors nearby, and they all knew that Mrs. Li gave birth to two daughters, but they only knew that one of the baby girls died shortly after birth, but they didn't know that the baby had been raped before she died. Sneak through. "

After Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng learned about Su Yuan's situation, even though they were still busy with official business, they still insisted on taking the time to listen to the report together.

"This is very strange. Losing a daughter is a big deal. According to the old lady Wang, the Su Manor had sent people to look for it. If there was such a big fanfare, wouldn't the neighbors know about it?" Gongsun Ce felt that there was something strange about this place. , cannot be explained.

Bao Zheng seconded the proposal and agreed with Gongsun Ce's judgment.

He looked at Su Yuan carefully. This child is handsome and well-behaved. Why has his recent experience been so ups and downs?The case finally came to an end, and the "mother" who came to the door suddenly was full of doubts.

"My lord and Master don't need to worry. I have a sense of proportion in this matter and I can deal with it myself. Compared with the lawsuit of human life, this is nothing more than a trivial matter."

Su Yuan half-jokingly said that what she and Gongsun Ce have learned during this period of time must be used.

Bao Zheng didn't feel comforted by these words, instead he felt sorry for Su Yuan, thinking of what the butler reported to him this morning.

Some people in this mansion were a bit unlucky because of Su Yuan's repeated troubles, and they said that she was possessed by a degenerate spirit, which forced Su Yuan to almost give birth to the idea of ​​becoming a monk.

The butler felt sorry for Su Yuan very much. When he mentioned this matter, he was very upset and his eyes were red with anger.

Bao Zheng was also very angry after hearing the words. This trend is not right and must be curbed.

After Su Yuan left, Bao Zheng told Gongsun Ce that the matter must be dealt with seriously.From now on, if anyone in the mansion criticizes Su Yuan casually without any evidence, spreads rumors and causes troubles, and ruins her reputation, they will be dealt with according to the law and dismissed for investigation.

As soon as the warning came out, no one complained, and immediately the whole government echoed and praised it, saying it was a good move.

Since then, everyone in Kaifeng Mansion has taken more care of Su Yuan, even to the point of protecting his shortcomings.

……

Su Yuan was free, so she went to Bai Yutang to ask if there was anything interesting in today's tabloid.

Bai Yutang handed the ordered tabloid to Su Yuan, and then kept looking at her.

"what happened?"

She secretly made a bowl of fried rice with ham in the kitchen just now, cut the ham into cubes, fried it until golden, then added egg wash and rice to mix, and then added special sauce... It tasted so good!

Could it be that Bai Yutang found out about her eating alone?Su Yuan couldn't help touching his face to check if there were rice particles on it.

"The tabloid said that the Imperial Merchant Su's family will move into Tokyo soon, and they have purchased a large mansion in the west of the city. It took a lot of words to describe how luxurious this mansion is. I took a look at the location of this mansion. , only one street away from Kaifeng Mansion."

Su Yuan opened the tabloid and saw that it was indeed the case, and couldn't help laughing.