“Quickly, please, quickly.”
The old lady hurriedly put down her tea and also stood up, thinking that Song Wangyue had come to her door to give her a review.
The governor, however, frowned slightly.
The silver for the pills had already been given, so what was Song Wangyue doing at her door at this time? Seeing her own mother’s appearance, she helplessly told her to sit down.
He was the governor, how could he stand up to greet the common people, even if Song Wan Yue was the sister of the Minister of Household Affairs?
The old lady was also agitated, and sat back down again at her son’s words.
The housekeeper went out to collect the people, only to return a moment later alone, “Miss Song says she has something to see your Lordship, and asks you to see them alone.”
“They?”
“Apart from Miss Song, there is also Meng Yang and another person.”
The governor intuited that this was a request for him and did not want to see them, but then he thought of Song Si and got up, “Take them to the parlour.”
The butler answered and retreated.
The smile that had been on the old lady’s face also receded. Her son had been an official for many years, and there were countless people who wanted to flatter them, using whatever methods they could.
“If she makes any conditions, there is no need to agree to her.”
“My son knows.”
The three of them were taken to the parlour, and when they entered and saw the governor sitting on the main seat, they went forward and bowed, “Greetings, my lord.”
The governor’s attitude was quite kind, “Don’t be rude, take a seat.”
The three of them sat down.
Song Wan Yue had a natural attitude, Meng Yang was slightly nervous, and Li An, still wearing the mud-encrusted clothes, sat upright and without the slightest uneasiness.
The governor couldn’t help but look at him a few more times.
“This is Uncle Li ……”
Song Wangyue noticed his gaze and introduced him without moving, “He used to be in the Ministry of Works, then he resigned and came here because he fell on his leg while building the aqueduct.”
Ministry of Works?
From the capital?
The governor fondled his teapot and speculated on the purpose of Song Wangyue bringing such a person.
Seeing that he did not say anything, Song Wan Yue opened the door and said, “We are not here today to climb into friendship. A few days ago I went to stay at a farm outside the city and there was a river there. After a heavy rain, the water level only rose by seven or eight inches. I thought it was strange, so I asked Uncle Li to go over and look at it, and found that it was the upstream drains that were blocked. When I came back to ask my uncle, he said that it hadn’t rained this heavily for years and that it was really unusual, so we blew our brains out and came to see the lord, because if it continued like this, there would be nowhere to drain the rainwater and I was afraid it would cause a flood.”
“Yes, my lord ……”
This was the second time Meng Yang had met the governor. The first time was when the governor came to take up his post and called all the famous merchants in Jinling City to dinner, his heart couldn’t help but tremble a little, but Song Wangyue had already started, he couldn’t drag his feet, “The grass is born and raised in Jinling, such heavy rain in this month is not a good sign.”
The governor nodded, “I understand, thank you for coming, I will immediately send someone to investigate, if this is really happening as you say, I will gather people to build the aqueduct as soon as possible.”
Meng Yang looked at Song Wan Yue, and seeing that she had something else to say, he shook his head slightly at her and got up to say goodbye.
As soon as they had left, the governor sent someone to shout for people to come and ask them to investigate.
On the carriage, Meng Yang said, “Yue’er, I don’t think that the governor believes what we say.”
If he believed, he wouldn’t have reacted the way he did.
“We have to prepare for both ……”, Song Wan Yue wrinkled her brow, she wasn’t sure if the governor believed it, “You have people stock up more grain, and more of everything in the family’s one application, and the herbal tea workshop side is always The herbal tea workshop is also being watched at all times, try not to stockpile more goods on the farm.”
Meng Yang nodded, “Okay, I’ll give the order when I get back.”
There were two knocks on the carriage wall and Li An asked shyly, “Miss Song, I happen to be here today, can I go and pay my respects to the old man?”
“Of course you can, grandfather has wanted to see you every day since he found out you were here.”
When they returned to the house, Song Wangyue led Li An to see the old gentleman.
Seeing that he still had mud on his lapel and his shoes were half-wet, the old gentleman asked Xu Liang to take his own shoes for Li An to change into first.
“No, no need.”
Li An waved his hand, “I’m relieved to see that you’re in good health, I’ll be back soon.”
Li An had lived in the Xu residence for many years, the old gentleman knew his character and knew he was not a smooth talker, looking at the sky outside, it was already late, he left him, “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you, don’t go back today, stay and have a good talk with me.”
Li An was still thinking about the drainage and wanted to go back to keep an eye on the people to drain the water so that he could go and repair the aqueduct tomorrow. Hearing this from the old gentleman, he also stopped thinking about the drainage and answered, “I can still accompany you to play a game.”
“Good.”
The old gentleman smiled and responded, gesturing for him to change his half-wet shoes first, and asked Xu Liang to get a set of his clothes over. But Li An was quite a bit taller than Xu Liang, and his clothes simply wouldn’t fit.
“Uncle and third cousin are about the same size, I’ll go and ask him for a set to come over. ”
Song Wangyue headed outside, and just as she reached the courtyard, she saw Meng Cheng coming over and smiled, “You’re just in time, cousin, go and get a set of clothes over for uncle to wear.”
Meng Cheng went back and brought over a set of black and blue clothes, Li An thanked him and went to the inner room to change into them, they were just the right size.
“This set of clothes is for you, I don’t like the colour, I haven’t worn it once since it was made.”
“Thank you, Third Young Master.”
Li An bent down to thank him, and Meng Cheng avoided moving out of the way.
Song Wangyue looked on and raised her eyebrows.
When the two went out of the courtyard and onto the promenade, Song Wan Yue asked coldly, “Cousin has his heart set on Xu Ling’er, right?”
Meng Cheng’s footsteps jerked, “You, how do you know?”
He had hidden it so well that no one had noticed.
Song Wangyue laughed and pointed to her eyes, “Saw it.”
“No way, I didn’t do it ……”
Before she finished her words, she reacted to something and tentatively blushed.
Song Wan Yue couldn’t stop laughing and leaned on the corridor pillar, “You men are unmarried and women are unmarried, it’s not an unforgivable sin to have a heart, why should cousin cover it up?”
“It’s not that I want to cover it up, it’s that I don’t understand her feelings ……”, Meng Cheng lowered his voice, lest anyone hear him, looked around, saw no one else, his voice returned to normal, “At first, I felt she had some interest in me. I don’t know what’s going on these days, but I feel like she’s being very cold to me.”
“Because of me.”
Meng Cheng didn’t understand what she meant, “What because of you?”
“Cousin doesn’t know Xu Ling’er’s original identity, does he?”
Meng Cheng’s heart fluttered, “She, what was her identity?”
“My maternal grandfather’s granddaughter, Miss Sun of the Xu House.”