Chapter 59: Self-effacing

“Huh? What’s he doing here, brother? Isn’t he preparing for the imperial examinations? Shouldn’t he be too busy attending classes at the academy in the capital to leave.” Xie Ying asked.

“I’m not really sure about this, but anyway, your grandfather and your father agreed to it, so there must be some serious business to be done before they come over.”

“Oh, okay. Regardless of all that, I’ll go find Wei Qingruo first and tell her that my mother agrees that we should start a medicinal field, and I’m going to do it right away!”

Xie Ying winded up running back to the schoolhouse, finding Wei Ruo and telling her the news.

“Wei Qingruo, my mother has already agreed, when can we start doing it?” Xie Ying jumped at the chance.

“Right away.” Wei Ruo liked this style of doing things when they were said to be done without delay.

“Then you quickly tell me what we have to do now how to organize the work, what things we need to purchase and how many hands we need.” Xie Ying sat down next to Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo took out a pen and paper and explained to Xie Ying while marking the key points on the paper.

Xie Ying listened attentively, and brought up anything she didn’t understand, with a serious and studious demeanor.

After finishing, he took the paper written by Wei Ruo to find Mrs. Xie to borrow people, and officially started to work with great efficiency.

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Equally efficient was Chu Lan, who sent a Sister to the school captain’s residence after only two days to discuss matters in the south of the city with Wei Ruo.

For this reason Wei Ruo specially took leave from Mr. Wang and stayed at home to arrange things.

Mr. Wang did not arbitrarily disagree with this, and told Wei Ruo that what she was doing now was also part of her studies.

Seeing the Sister sent by Chu Lan, Yun’s heart was shocked, intuitively knowing that the other party’s origin was not even a fraction of a star away from her own Sister.

Plus, her husband had reminded her last night that the nobleman’s status was not ordinary, and that she should pay attention to good manners.

After Yun heard that the other party’s surname was Chu, she already knew a thing or two about it, and that people in the royal family, even if it was any unpopular prince’s family, were people they couldn’t afford to mess with.

Yun’s attitude respectfully led the Sister sent by Chu Lan to Listening Pine Court, and then instructed Wei Ruo to walk away in time, so as not to delay Wei Ruo and the Sister from talking about business.

“Old slave has met Miss Wei.” When Sister Qin saw Wei Ruo, she bowed, her attitude respectful, but her aura around her did not diminish, looking particularly majestic.

Wei Ruoxin knew that most of the sisters sent by Chu Lan were from the palace, and were different from the sisters of ordinary families.

Although the Zhongyi Burial House is an Earl’s House, even in its heyday it could not match the rules of the palace, not to mention that it has long since fallen into disrepair.

“No need to be polite.” Wei Ruo said, “Your son sent you here to assist me, please don’t pay much attention to those rules, just convey my meaning and let the people below fulfill their tasks properly.”

“Miss Wei please don’t worry, the Prince has already explained the old slave, the old slave should do his best to assist Miss Wei with all his heart and soul, Miss Wei has any thing that needs to be done by the old slave, as long as it’s related to the reclamation of the wasteland in the south of the city, you can order it to the old slave, and the old slave will arrange for it to be accomplished by the people.”

Sister Qin although their own rules are very strict a lot, but Wei Ruo did not have any frame more than pick Wei Ruo’s faults, she is very clear what she is doing to come, her master are two points of high regard for the person, she would not be picking her rules of the wrong place.

Sister Qin was talking things over with Wei Ruo when Wei Qingwan suddenly entered Listening Pine Court.

“Sister.” Wei Qingwan came to Wei Ruo and sweetly called out.

Wei Ruo’s gaze flinched as he sized up Wei Qingwan.

As the saying goes, you can’t get away with anything, after the oops incident of the Xie family’s reading, Wei Qingwan hadn’t come to Listening Pine Court, what kind of wind was blowing today that blew her over?

“Sister, I brought some osmanthus cakes over for you.” Wei Qingwan’s hand was carrying an exquisite food box, and when she opened it, it was her specialty pastry, osmanthus cakes.

“Wait a moment, I’ll talk to you after I finish things with Sister Qin.”

Wei Ruo didn’t know what Wei Qingwan was singing about, she didn’t want to talk to Wei Qingwan much for fear that after a couple of sentences Wei Qingwan would say something that would attract her dislike which would make her unable to hold back from disliking her in front of outsiders.

Wei Qingwan nodded slightly, but did not leave, only waiting by the side.

At this time, Sister Qin spoke up as she scrutinized Wei Qingwan, “This is the second young miss of the residence, right?”

Seeing Sister Qin sizing herself up, Wei Qingwan’s face was shy, slightly hanging her head as she softly replied, “Yes.”

Who would have thought that Sister Qin followed up with, “Please also ask the second young miss to recuse herself, I have business to discuss with the eldest young miss and it’s not convenient for outsiders to listen in.”

Wei Qingwan froze for a moment, then busily changed her words, “In that case, then I’ve really come at a bad time, then I’ll go and wait for my sister on the side first.”

“The second young lady indeed came at an unfortunate time, I came to the residence today to think that the school captain’s residence should be aware of the matter, I don’t know why the second young lady did not come earlier or later, but chose to come at this time.” Sister Qin did not speak politely at all.

Sister Qin said is exactly what Wei Ruo heart, Wei Qingwan today’s behavior is really strange, because Chu Lan identity special, he sent a sister around, the lieutenant of the House of seriousness, Yun’s early account of the people in the house to be careful to act, and even welcome the Bamboo Garden have received the news of the Wei Qingwan could not possibly do not know.

Wei Qingwan knew it clearly, but she chose this time to come to see Wei Ruo, to say that she didn’t have other intentions, Wei Ruo didn’t believe it.

But if she had something else in mind, it was a little too stupid.

It’s not true that Sister Qin is Chu Lan’s sidekick, but she’s just a Sister. Does she think that if she behaves well in front of the Sister, she’ll go back to Chu Lan and put in a good word for her? Does she think she’s a matchmaker?

This would be reasonable if it were the village’s three nuns and six women, but Sister Qin is a sister from the palace.

The Royal Sisters are so disciplined, where would they do something so inexplicable.

Wei Ruo remembers that although the original Wei Qingwan is beautiful and weak, but not so stupid, is it possible that she is less of a supporting role to set off or not in accordance with the original time and Chu Lan fell in love, resulting in her brain is not good?

I’ve only heard that being in love makes you blind. I’ve never heard that not being in love makes you blind.

After hearing Sister Qin’s words, Wei Qingwan’s face turned white, and she was busy explaining, “Don’t be angry, Sister, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop on Sister’s speech, I didn’t know that the conversation between Sister and Sister mustn’t be known by outsiders, I was just worried that Sister’s hospitality wasn’t good enough, and so I brought some pastries I made over to take a look.”

“With all due respect to the old slave, Missy is Second Miss’s first sister, what is Second Miss trying to tell others by saying to me, an outsider, that she’s worried about Missy’s poor hospitality?”

Sister Qin deserves to be a person out of the palace, the mind is delicate and clear, Wei Qingwan those words hiding words in the rhetoric she heard the flavor of the moment she heard.

Wei Qingwan was instantly ashamed and indignant, anxiously explaining, “Sister you misunderstood, I didn’t mean anything else, it was my improper use of words that caused the misunderstanding.”