The moon falling to the ground

Chapter 146: How to Get Fat

Yan Xiuyuan sighed and said to Xie Chujiao: "I'll leave this matter to you. When Xinning comes back to stay for a while..."

"Father, there's no need to wait. I'm afraid that if we delay for a few days, the shop we take back will be an empty shell. Also, since I handed it over to her, I have to hand over all the income from these years as well."

Xie Chujiao felt a pain in her teeth, and snorted and laughed: "Girl Yue, you don't have to be so cruel, right? Xin Ning is the second prince's woman after all..."

"The second prince's woman can take other people's dowry? Is this easy to say? Or does Madam also think that Yan Xinning should use my mother's dowry? She is just a thief who became a concubine. How can she have the face to enjoy my mother's things with peace of mind?"

Xie Chujiao's expression cracked inch by inch. She couldn't stand it anymore! She really couldn't stand it anymore!

She put down her chopsticks and sighed helplessly: "Girl Yue, I know you are resentful. You blame me for not driving Xin Ning out and accepting her as my goddaughter. You grew up in the countryside and you don't understand many things. Xin Ning is the one favored by the Second Prince. We can ignore Xin Ning, but we cannot ignore the Second Prince."

Jian Yue said ruthlessly with a sneer on her face: "So in order to curry favor with the Second Prince, you didn't hesitate to let me be Yan Xinning's stepping stone. You are praising my enemy, which is like stabbing a knife into my heart. Of course, I also know in my heart that no one cares about my feelings."

Yan Xiuyuan's face turned red, and he felt like he was slapped in the face again and again.

"Do you think I want to be the bad guy? I'm doing this for your father's career." Xie Chujiao was so aggrieved that she was about to cry.

Jian Yue sneered: "Are you really doing this for my father? The emperor is in his prime, and the crown prince is in charge of the East Palace. Everyone says that the second prince is virtuous and capable, and can compete with the crown prince. You are standing on the side of the second prince at this time, are you looking for death?"

Yan Xiuyuan was startled, the heat on his face disappeared, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the table with a "clatter".

"Yue'er, you..." He wanted to ask how you knew this, but he heard Jian Yue say, "Father, any scholar knows this truth. How can you, an official who has been immersed in the officialdom for many years, not understand it? Or are you just hoping for the best and want to have the best of both worlds?"

At this moment, Yan Xiuyuan really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Jian Yue's words were very sharp, leaving him no face at all.

Jian Yue said quietly: "Father, I don't want to be exiled before I can enjoy my life."

Xie Chujiao shuddered in her heart and was also frightened. She looked at Yan Xiuyuan with pale lips, wanting to hear from him a rebuttal to Jian Yue's alarmist words. She was just a woman in the inner house, and all her thoughts were focused on the small piece of land in the back house. How could she understand what was happening in the court?

"Ah Jiao, go to the Second Prince's villa tomorrow and make sure to take back the shop and land from Xin Ning." Yan Xiuyuan made the final decision.

He wanted to play both sides, but he couldn't let others see it. After all, it was risky to stand on the same side now. What if, what if the prince got better?

Jian Yue raised the corners of her lips slightly and stood up: "Father, I have no appetite now. I'll take this pot of soup and drink it to fill my stomach when I get home." She picked up the pot of ginseng chicken soup and asked Muxiang to hold it. Without waiting for Yan Xiuyuan's response, she turned and left.

Xie Chujiao:……

Yan Tianchen was unhappy: "Mom, she took the chicken soup away, what are we going to drink?"

Yan Lingshan also pouted: "Dad, we haven't even had a single sip! How can we eat this meal without chicken soup?"

Yan Xiuyuan was feeling irritated, and after hearing what the two siblings said, he couldn't help but get angry: "Can't we eat without chicken soup? A table full of delicacies from land and sea is not as delicious as the wild vegetable steamed bread that your eldest sister eats?"

Xie Chujiao:...It seems that my husband took the little bastard's words to heart.

Seeing their father getting angry, Yan Tianchen and his sister shrank their necks and dared not say a word.

My father doesn't get angry easily, but once he does, my mother's words are useless. Especially Yan Tianchen, after experiencing the beating, he has an inexplicable fear of his father.

Jian Yue returned to Xuexiangyuan, heated up the ginseng chicken soup in the small kitchen, and shared a bowl with Fuyun and Muxiang, eating up all the soup and meat.

Fuyun and Muxiang took turns keeping watch, and Jian Yue slept soundly.

That night, Yan Xiuyuan and his wife tossed and turned in bed.

Yan Xiuyuan couldn't sleep because of Jian Yue's words, while Xie Chujiao couldn't sleep because of the shop and land that were about to be taken back.

Of the three shops and a small farm, only one teahouse with not very impressive income was actually owned by Yan Xinning. The other two shops and one farm were owned by Xie Chujiao.

Asking Yan Xinning to hand it over is the same as asking her to hand it over. Once these things pass through the hands of that little bastard, she will be suspected of touching the former lady's dowry. Although she did touch a lot of it, she did it behind the scenes, and even Yan Xiuyuan didn't know.

Thinking of Jian Yue, Xie Chujiao hated her so much. It would be okay to change her to another daughter of the mansion lord, as long as she ate and drank well, and when she reached the age, she would be given a dowry and sent away, and she would not be intolerant. But she could not tolerate this little bastard thinking of her dead mother's dowry.

The next day, Jian Yue slept in and got up at noon.

Xiaoyun and Ruyi were fishing in the yard with brooms in their hands. Jian Yue stood under the eaves and watched them quietly without saying anything.

The two men felt guilty when they were stared at, and they waved the brooms in their hands, causing dust to fly.

Jian Yue waved to them to come over.

Xiaoyun dragged the broom and asked, "Miss, what do you want?"

Jian Yue said with a fake smile: "Did you see it? The yard, doors, windows, railings, columns, and the edge of the small flower bed. If you can't clean it up before lunch, I will sell you off. I don't need useless garbage in my yard."

Xiaoyun and Ruyi were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they fell to their knees with a plop.

Ruyi: "Miss, we know we are wrong. Please don't sell us out. We will work hard."

Xiaoyun: "Miss, we will never be lazy again. Please give us another chance."

Jian Yue: "Can you clean it up?"

Both: "Yes."

"louder please."

"can!"

Muxiang on the side was scratching her ears.

The two men's voices were full of energy, and it seemed that they had eaten a lot of breakfast.

Muxiang went to the big kitchen to get some food. When she opened the food box, a rich, sweet aroma filled her nose.

Jian Yue took a look and saw: deep-fried sugar cakes, candied yams, sweet and sour crispy pork, greasy braised pork, and a chicken soup with yellow oil floating in it.

The staple food is crystal shrimp dumplings, soup dumplings and sesame meat patties.

Jian Yue was silent for a moment, then asked Mu Xiang: "Is this the dish you picked?"

Mu Xiang shook her head: "No, when I went there, the people in the kitchen had already prepared it. They said that it was Madam's order that the young lady should eat more good food to replenish her body because she had been tortured before."

Ha ha!

It turns out that in the previous life, the original owner was deliberately raised to be a fat man. It was not only Yan Xinning's idea, but also Xie Chujiao's hand.

Maybe, this is actually...