Chapter 43: Who's Counting on You

 The guests dispersed.

 In the large courtyard, only the Xie family remained.

Although Old Mrs. Xie was old, she was usually fit and healthy and rarely got sick, but this time she was all weak and paralyzed on the recliner.

 "Asshole, lowly billet!"

 The old lady looked at the two people kneeling in front of her and picked up the tealight and slammed it down.

The spattered porcelain slashed the side of Xie Jingyu's face, and he seemed to come to his senses only then, the memories from before his chaotic consciousness snapped back.

 He clenched his fists violently, "Grandmother, I am being counted."

He also slowly came to her senses, she only remembers that she was pulled by Xie Jingyu to a small courtyard by the wigwam to talk, and the two of them talked and argued.

She didn't want to fall out with Xie Jingyu, so she smoothly poured a cup of tea from a pot on the table and handed it to Xie Jingyu.

The two sat opposite each other and drank tea, and then ... then I don't know anything ... only vaguely remember that she and Xie Jingyu seemed to be hot and hard to distinguish, and were surrounded by the guests of the birthday banquet ...

 She remembered being called Aunt He.

 "Counting?" The old lady sat up straight, "Who would count on you?"

"Then of course it's He mama." Aunt Tao held her large belly and spoke in a cold voice, "Who doesn't know that our Mama He holds undeserved thoughts towards His Excellency, and to drug His Excellency on such an occasion, isn't it because she wants to have a raw deal, and wants to fly up to the branch and become the master?"

He opened her mouth and said, "It s not me, I didn t count on Your Excellency, and I didn t want to be an aunt ...."

"If not you, then who else?" The old lady's eyes seemed like they were spitting fire, although her old man knew that He didn't have the intention of becoming an aunt, but this time the Xie family lost such a big face, it wasn't because He was restless, if she had honestly stayed in the small temple, would there have been so much shit?

 Xie Jingyu pursed her lips, and only after a long time did she say, "It's the Yuan family."

He and Lord Yuan are both fifth-ranking Household Department langzhongs, Lord Yuan has been in this position for more than ten years, almost forty years old this year, and has never had the opportunity to be promoted.

This time there was a chance to become a fifth rank on the original 100% was him Xie Jingyu, but for some reason Lord Yu suddenly did not treat him well, coupled with the rumors about the Xie family's Yun family spread throughout the capital a while ago, this position all of a sudden there are many possibilities.

If the matter of his private affair with the maid of the back house is rumored to the court, he is afraid that he will not want to be promoted for the last five or six years.

 Lord Yuan must have wanted to take the opportunity to stomp him down and make him lose his chance completely.

 He pursed his lips.

She always felt that the Yuan family couldn't extend their hand this far, and she felt that it was someone from the Xie family who was counting on her.

The only ones capable of doing this were a few aunts and madams, but none of these should be willing to have more women around the lord, and there was no motive to count on her.

 Thinking about it, she didn't know who she had planted herself in.

"There is no point in pursuing who is counting now, one should think of ways to minimize the impact." Yun Chu spoke slowly, "The official of the current dynasty and the maid in the house, in the grandmother's birthday banquet, metamorphosis, this matter if spread to the ears of the imperial historian, husband not only difficult to promote, may also be deposed to strip the real power ... Precisely because of the thought of this point, so, I called He mother in front of those ladies He Aunt. Aunt He, in order not to lose the truth, now have to enter Aunt He's name into the Xie family pamphlet ...."

 Yuan breathed a huge sigh of relief, "Chu'er, it's still you who's thoughtful."

"No, I won't be an aunt." He turned pale, "Ma'am, I didn't think about being an aunt."

Aunt Tao spoke with a panicked face, "He had harmed the child in my belly, if she becomes an aunt, the child in my belly will be in danger."

 Xie Jingyu spoke, "He can't be an aunt."

Aunt Tao and Aunt Jiang, as well as Listen to the Rain, had a look of celebration on their faces in unison.

They knew that He's old and weak, the Lord could not possibly look at, and could not get the slightest pity from the Lord even if he offered himself.

 Yun Chou was more convinced that He's identity was afraid to be of some origin.

The less willing she was to be an aunt, then she had to bring He up to the position of an aunt, otherwise what was she designing this play for?

 She spoke up, "And what better way does Husband have?"

 Xie Jingyu pursed his lips.

 He couldn't think of a second way.

"I do have another method." Yunchu paused, "Let Mama He drink a cup of poisoned wine to end her life, and this matter will naturally go away."

 He went straight to the ground, paralyzed.

 Xie Jingyu's lips pursed into a straight line, caught in a deep tangle.

 Old Mrs. Xie snapped, "Auntie and poisoned wine, take your pick."

Yuan really didn't understand, "He, your heart is pleased with Jingyu, but you don't want to become Jingyu's aunt, is being an aunt something ten thousand times more painful?"

He was trembling, tears surfaced in her eyes as she looked at Xie Jingyu expectantly.

Xie Jingyu closed her eyes and said softly, "Then let Aunt He go on the Xie family tree."

Even concubines of women in this dynasty can be included in the genealogy, all because of the emergence of a Lady Zhenguo hundreds of years ago, which greatly enhanced the status of women.

Yun Chu walked forward and helped He up, "Aunt He, from now on, we will serve our husband together, we are family, what is your real name?"

He was still in a state of trepidation and uncertainty, and at the sound of her voice, she said out of instinct, "Perry He Ling."

Yunchu wore a light smile on her face, "GongDa is usually busy, so I won't ask his old man to make a special trip back, husband, what are you still kneeling for, let's go to open the clan ancestral hall first, ask for a genealogy, and enroll Auntie He in the register."

 Xie Jingyu struggled to get up from the ground.

 He stumbled a little, unsteady on his feet.

Yun Chu avoided to the side, mainly because she was afraid that Xie Jingyu would crook on top of her, she didn't want to take several more baths at night.

 She turned and led the way out the door.

Looking at her figure, Aunt Tao sighed, how could she not be able to do it as freely as madam, as long as the thought of more people around the adult, her heart is like pins and needles, the only fortunate thing is that she is pregnant with a child, and it is considered to have something to fall back on, while He is so old, it is probably very difficult to conceive a baby, as the days go by, the adult should completely forget about He as a person... ...

 Yunchu and Xie Jingyu, led He away from the courtyard.

As soon as they left, the old lady snapped, "Bring that steward surnamed He here!"

Mother Zhou had long been waiting at the side with He Xu, and after the masters had settled things, it was naturally He Xu's turn.

Mother Zhou pressed He Xu to his knees and presented a large bundle, "Old madam, this was searched from He Xu's room."

The old lady took a look, and here was a surprisingly large several hundred taels of white snow silver.

 "How dare you!" The old lady was furious and kicked her hard.

This He Xu was brought into the Xie House together with He's, saying that he is the brother of the same family, so take care of one or two.

Because of this relationship, He Xu into the government only four or five years, became a big steward in the outer courtyard, Xie family to this brother and sister duo benevolent to the end, the two but together to Xie family dug a pit, a let Xie family suffered a great shame, a secret embezzlement Xie family silver!

Mother Zhou continued, "Just now, the slave girl went to a few stores to check, only to realize that the stores that Steward He is taking care of have been unable to make ends meet for half a month."

Those several stores are on the main street, there is no way they can't make ends meet, it's obvious that they are being embezzled by He Xu.

"Beat him twenty times and throw him out!" The old lady's head exploded, "Don't allow him to enter the Xie family in the future!"

He Xu was gagged, whimpering to explain something, but was four big three thick grannies pressed, snapped twenty big plate, he a grown man pain directly fainted, and then was thrown in the suburbs of the capital in front of a beggar gathering of broken temple.