"Brother Yao'er is still a bit of a bearer." Mrs. Xue Yao casts a sidelong glance, "Considering that you are young and this is your first offense, I can't bear to punish you, I'll only deduct half a penny from you this month, so that you'll learn from your mistakes."
In modern times, Xue Yao's mother is Aunt Zhou, but in ancient times, the concubine's son should call the main wife his mother, and most people usually call her "Mrs.".
Ancient people's name is actually very good to understand, most of them are called with the subordinates, for example, Xue Yao's father is the third master of the Xue family, named Xue Cheng, the third house of the maids and boys called him "master" or "Cheng three masters," his son, his wife, his aunts and wives call him "master" on weekdays, and even the old master and the old lady also called him "master". The son, wife, aunts usually also call him "master", even the old master and the old lady also called him "master", which is called with the subordinate address.
Of course, the son can call him "father" and the parents can call him by his first name, depending on the family's customs.
This was the result of Xue Yao's observation over the past two days. After all, the original owner was an eight year old child who called himself by his customary name, but didn't know much about the rules, so he had to figure it out himself.
At the moment, Xue Yao was thinking about the system prompt just now, and didn't have the heart to think about how big of a punishment "deducting half of a month's money" was, so he directly kowtowed and agreed to it.
After Mrs. Zhou went back to her room, Aunt Zhou was heartbroken and pleased with her filial son, and busily took out the money she had saved between her teeth and handed it over to Xue Yao's personal maid, asking her not to save the food and drink for Yao's son when he went to the academy, and to make up for the lack of that half a hang of money.
If Xue Yao accepts her birth mother's money, I'm afraid that the six whitewashing points she just heard will be deducted back, so she hurriedly rejects Aunt Zhou's good intentions, saying that the palace academy will provide pastries, and that she doesn't need to bring her own food.
Aunt Zhou then stopped and praised him twice more before going back to her room to rest.
Xue Yao returned to the east wing, dismissed the maids, and began to study the "system prompt" alone.
He tried whispering the command, "Open the system interface," and heard no response, so he closed his eyes and mentally ordered it, and still got no response from the system.
As he recalled the mantra "villains make personal systems", a dark space suddenly appeared in his mind.
The space contained a three-dimensional giant Rubik's Cube, each square of which was translucent glass emanating a shimmering light.
Xue Yao tried to focus his mental energy on a small square of the Rubik's Cube, and the sight distance immediately drew closer, as if he were floating directly in front of that square.
There appeared to be some sort of object locked inside the square, but it was impossible to see it fully through the translucent glass.
Just now that system prompt said that the cleansing point reached 50 before the exchange interface could be opened.
He had just added only 6 points, so perhaps he wouldn't be able to unlock the Rubik's Cube at all, so Xue Yao had to call it quits for the time being, opening his eyes and exiting the mental space.
The mood is a little excited, this is obviously a golden finger ah, although for the time being do not know what use can be put, but at least gives him a little hope.
Since it's a "villain as a personal system", the so-called "whitewash points" must be earned by doing good deeds.
For now, it seemed that honoring his own mother was considered a whitewash, so should he send Auntie Zhou a quilt to try?
Xue Yao said to try, and ran both ways in the east wing and west wing in one night, serving tea and water and sending quilts, until it was dark, when he heard a beep: [Non-substantial help in the act of showmanship reaches three, whitewash point -1].
Xue Yao: "????"
What's with the demerits!
Showboating behavior? A bolt from the blue!
Is this system so real!
Xue Yao wilted in defeat.
Tossing and turning in the night, there were only two ways out that he could think of: one was to go and help the Seventh Prince to fix the ears and tail of the little wooden horse, and the other, counting on some life-saving magic treasures in this system exchange.
However, both paths are currently lost.
The Seventh Prince was only three years old and did not study with the Third Prince in one place.
In the novels, 80% of the pre-existing villains are taken up by the party of the Three Princes, and in reality, those events are separated by as many as a few years or as few as a few weeks.
As the Third Prince's attendant reader, it was simply impossible for Xue Yao to casually meet the cub-stage Long Ao Tian.
Now, the more feasible way out is to find something good to do, brush up some "whitewash points", and see what kind of goodies can be exchanged.
So for the next week, every day after Xue Yao returned from the Shangshu's office, he put on all his energy and wandered blindly around the inner and outer courtyards of the Xue Mansion, praying that the patriarchs and the elders would encounter some kind of trouble and wait for him to come to their rescue.
However, he was only an eight-year-old child, unable to carry on his shoulders or hands, unable to do any physical favors, and his state of mind was not up to the level of solving problems for mortals.
The last favor he did was when a servant in the courtyard cut her hand, and he took the ointment from his room and treated the servant's wound.
Whitewash Points +2.
Just by the pettiness of this system it seemed that he wouldn't be able to earn 50 points even if he donated all of his private items!
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This morning, the old lady of the Xue family wanted to go to the temple and only let the daughter-in-law of the eldest house, Wang, accompany her.
Xue Yao followed his father and sent the old lady all the way out of the Xue Mansion.
When the old lady got on the bus, her legs were not too nimble, and she lifted her feet three times before she stepped on the stirrups.
This scene suddenly sparked Xue Yao's memory!
In the novel, the third prince once went to catch the young male lead, found that the readers Xue Yao was not around, asked the little eunuch, only to learn that Xue Yao's grandmother at home had an accident and went back on leave.
The third prince and the readers have a good relationship, but also deliberately asked a couple of sentences, and then learned that Xue Yao's grandmother went to the temple to worship Buddha fell, hip bone to break.
Shortly after this incident, Xue Yao in the book took a few more days off, because her grandmother had died.
The exact amount of time between the fall and her death is not written in the book, but Xue Yao believes that the fall, directly or indirectly, led to Mrs. Xue's death.
Ancient medicine was not well developed, and when you broke a bone in your sixties, it took months of recovery time and you had to stay in bed.
As you get older, lack of moderate exercise can find its way into any illness.
If all of the above inferences were valid, then if Xue Yao stopped the old lady from going to the temple now, it would be tantamount to saving someone's life, and he should be able to get quite a few whitewash points.
But how is he going to stop the old lady from going to the temple to burn incense?
Because the old man has been suffering from frequent headaches lately, the old lady is going to donate incense money to the temple because she can't find out what's wrong even if she invites a bone-setter to come.
If Xue Yao were to stop this kind of thing, it would be a great unfiliality, and he would not be able to work in the Xue family in the future.
What's more, the third master of the Xue family has the least status at home, the first son of Xue Qiong is still not valued, he is a commoner son, a person with a small voice, no say at all.
The old lady got into the car, Wang had followed her in, and the boy was about to collect his stirrups when Xue Yao suddenly stiffened and rushed forward, shouting, "Old lady! I also want to go to the temple to worship the Bodhisattva!"
The child's clear voice roused everyone's attention, and the more than twenty pairs of eyes present looked in unison at the second son of the third house family, Xue Yao.
The carriage's mantle was lifted, and the old lady asked Wang, "Which family's child?"
"It's Yao Ge'er." Wang replied.
The old lady shouted outward, "There's nothing interesting in the temple, and you won't be able to stay there if you go."
"I don't want to play, I want to worship the Bodhisattva!" Xue Yao quickly ran to the back of the carriage, stretched her neck and looked at the old lady with wide, watery eyes, "I want to accompany the old lady to worship the Bodhisattva together, so that Grandmaster won't have a headache!"
The old man is in love with hearing children's unintentionally auspicious words, the old lady was beaming with joy when she heard it, beckoning, "Carry him up here, it's rare for a child to have this intention."
The servants on the side immediately carried Xue Yao onto the carriage, and he went to the temple with the old lady so smoothly.
Xue Yao's own father was stunned, not expecting his normally obtuse youngest son to suddenly let loose and kiss such a loud ass without any pretense!
After returning, Master Xue repeatedly lamented and praised Yao'er for being a good worker with an immeasurable future.
Mrs. Chen heard and did not dare to refute, only gentle smile, after all, she can not in front of the master's face can not tolerate the commoner son out of the limelight, the heart only hated that Aunt Zhou really will be tempered son.
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Xue Yao followed the old lady to the temple, and from the moment he got out of the car, he had the cheek to hold on to the old lady's arm for dear life, all the way along.
Mrs. Wang politely mentioned several times that it was hot and wanted Xue Yao not to walk close to the old lady, but Xue Yao just pretended not to hear it and said, "The old lady walks slowly", and "Carefully in front of the threshold".
The Xue family is a large family, and even if they live in the same house, there is still a distance between the grandchildren.
Although the old lady did not care too much about the distinction between the first and the concubine, the original master Xue Yao was mute and lacked active means of socializing, thus the grandparent-grandson relationship with the old lady was very thin.
This sudden intimacy was actually quite abrupt, and anyway, Xue Yao flattered himself so much that he kept his face red, in order to clear his points.
Unexpectedly, the old lady did not feel embarrassed, but rather happy.
The Xue family is a family of poetic and ritual hairpin tassels, and their children and grandchildren are all scholars, emphasizing "a gentleman is more sensitive to his words than to his deeds".
From Elder Master Xue to his three sons, and even the five young masters of his grandchildren's generation, they would never act overly intimate with the old lady like Xue Yao did.
It is the daughter-in-law and granddaughter who are more attentive to the old lady, so the old lady loves to play with the female family members in one place on weekdays.
Now it is rare to have a grandchild stick to her like this, the old lady's heart gave birth to a different kind of sweetness, naturally not afraid of the heat of the day, just happy to stick with the little grandson to walk together!
That's why Wang's nagging was so hard, and she was even glared at by the old lady and didn't dare to say more.
Xue Yao heart is actually not bottom, thought the old lady is not open face did not push him away, so has not dared to raise his head and the old lady to meet the eyes of the old lady, vainly drilled in the old lady arm, but appeared to be more and more sticky.
Xue Yao in the original is an eighteen line cannon fodder, the text has no positive portrayal of his old lady wrestling, Xue Yao is not at all sure when the old lady will wrestle, so he is always on guard and does not move an inch.
When the burning of the incense was finished, Xue Yao encountered a problem - the monk who interpreted the sign wanted to take a step to talk to the old lady, saying that there was something he needed to tell her alone.
The two of them then went to the pond behind the monastery and talked about things as they walked.
Although he had dismissed his subordinates, he did not specifically allow the servants to watch Xue Yao.
Xue Yao immediately slipped away to the back garden of the monastery and peeked behind the rockery to watch.
The monk and the old woman strolled along the gravel path on the periphery of the pond, and as soon as Xue Yao took one look at the pavement, he knew it was going to be the end!
It rained last night and the mud puddles on both sides of the pond gravel road were washed out by the rain, and a lot of the gravel road was muddy and slippery at first glance.
100% is in this place fell, Xue Yao want to rush up to help the old lady, but this is also too inexplicable, offer attentiveness also have to have a degree, too much will cause people to be annoyed.
There was nothing for him to do but hide behind the flowerbed and stare intently at the path in front of the old woman.
When the old lady walked to the west side of the pond, Xue Yao suddenly saw some reflections on the gravel road in front of her, and when she fixed her eyes on it, she realized that it was a puddle of sunken pavement, with standing water in it.
Looking back, the old lady was listening to the monk's speech with rapt attention.
Eighty percent of them fell here!
Without hesitation, Xue Yao darted around the back and watched from a distance of four paces behind the old woman as she stepped into the puddle of stagnant water!
The old woman let out a gasp of surprise and fell backwards!
Xue Yao's brain instantly went blank, and with a stomp of his toes, he dashed forward, rushing to raise his hands before the old woman hit the ground!
But after all, he was physically young and failed to stop the fall, instead falling together and giving the old woman a back seat.
With Xue Yao's cushioning, the old lady didn't fall in pain, but just patted her chest in shock, and suddenly she heard her grandson's childish voice from behind her as he endured the pain, "Didn't fall did you old lady ......"
At the same time, Xue Yao heard a system beep ringing in his head: [Whitewash Points +75, Redemption Interface has been unlocked].