Chapter 155
Chapter 155 Eating mooncakes and being plotted
Xiao Rui spent the Mid-Autumn Festival on the road and also finished the boxes of fresh meat mooncakes.
He couldn't bear to eat the remaining mooncakes with lotus paste and egg yolk.
After returning to the capital, he immediately went to Xiao Jingze's house.
The moon waxes and wanes, and a waning moon appears on the horizon like a hook.
Xiao Rui carried the moon cake and went to Xiao Jingze's study.
"Tsk, your mansion is more gloomy than other people's mourning halls.
I asked you, why don't you just dig a grave for yourself and live there?
The province is occupying these places in vain, which is disturbing for people to see."
Bang, Xiao Jingze put down his pen carefully.
Xiao Rui felt a chill on his back and shook the mooncake in his hand proudly.
"Guess where your uncle went?
Where's Xiao Jinxiu? She even made mooncakes for me.
It’s fragrant and sweet, but it’s a pity that someone can’t eat it.”
Xiao Jingze raised his hand and pressed Xiao Rui's shoulder.
"So, the emperor was afraid that I wouldn't be able to eat it, so he brought it to me specially?"
With that gentle push, Xiao Rui felt that his shoulder was about to break.
“Ouch, tap it, tap it, it’s broken.
But, let me tell you.
Little Jinxiu has become particularly beautiful now.
Yaoyao, do you still remember?
It was the imperial aunt who died young.
Jinxiu looks exactly like her now, if she hadn't known that she was the daughter of the Su family.
I thought she was your lost imperial niece.
What a pity, Jinxiu is so beautiful and the cooking is so delicious.
Why was she ruined by you? It makes me so embarrassed that I just hang out in front of her."
Xiao Jingze's brows twitched when he heard his description.
"I, the king, did not harm her.
She doesn’t change, and with me, she’s always the same.”
The tone was cold and emotionless.
Xiao Rui was annoyed by his impersonal look and threw his hand away in anger.
"With a face like yours and a mouth like this, you deserve that no girl will like you."
He opened the food box and stuffed several pieces of cake into his mouth.
Originally he wanted to give Xiao Jingze half of it, but now he wants to eat it all.
"Uncle Huang has a good mouth, but where is your princess?"
These words were not meant to poke Xiao Rui's lungs, they were meant to poke his heart.
Who doesn't know that Prince Rui only has food to eat, and he doesn't even have a concubine in the mansion these years.
He was startled, and he didn't know whether he was angry or choked.
Covering his mouth, he strode out of the study.
Xiao Jingze looked at the last mooncake left in the food box, moved his fingertips slightly, picked it up gently, and put it in his mouth.
In the dark night, Xiao Rui's heartbreaking voice came.
"Xiao Jinxiu, are you plotting against me?
What was added to it? It’s so painful..."
Xiao Jingze finished the mooncake carefully without even moving his brows.
For a long time, the thin lips curled up in pleasure.
"sweet……"
Xiao Rui drank five bottles of water to rinse his mouth, but there was still a bitter taste at the base of his tongue.
Xiao Jinxiu was the least likely to add a pound of coptis to her mooncakes.
Xu saw that he wanted to bring the mooncakes to Xiao Jingze, so he did this on purpose.
It's a shame that he got angry with Xiao Jingze and harmed himself instead.
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Jiang Chunlan and Su Tieniu went through a lot of hardships to reach the capital.
When the two left Wucheng, they carried a lot of money with them.
Life is never too sad, but now the two of them are like beggars.
As soon as he entered the city, Su Tieniu was dazzled by the prosperity of the capital.
"Mom, let my eldest sister help us buy a yard in the capital.
From now on, find me a young lady.
Relying on other people's dowries, we and I can be rich and prosperous for the rest of our lives."
Jiang Chunlan patted Su Tieniu's head and pulled him forward.
"You have neither fame nor family background, so who can look up to you?
Don't think so much first, just please your big sister.
If we can enter the Marquis' Mansion, our future life will not be too difficult.
Also, stop gambling."
Not long after leaving Wucheng, I arrived in Decheng.
She thought that Tieniu had never traveled far, so she took Tieniu to stay in Decheng for a few days.
Who knew, there would be trouble during this stay.
Tieniu somehow got mixed up with a group of street gangsters, and with the money, he did everything from eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling.
When she found out about Tieniu's whereabouts and came to find him.
Tieniu has spent all his money, under the bewitchment of those bastards.
I'm going to make some money by photographing the little kids in the city.
She finally managed to get Tieniu out, but her mother was penniless and came to the capital by begging.
After giving instructions to Su Tieniu, the two mothers came to Zhenyuan Hou Mansion.
There was a carriage parked at the gate, and Zhou Yixiu and Lin Zhaozhao walked out of the gate slowly.
Jiang Chunlan saw this and hurriedly dragged Tieniu over.
"Lin, Miss Lin..."
Before he even got close, he was stopped by the guards of the house.
"Where did this beggar woman come from? Leave quickly."
Zhou Yixiu frowned and motioned to grandma to give them a few copper coins.
"Don't make trouble here, just let it go."
Grandma threw the copper plate to Jiang Chunlan, and Su Tieniu quickly knelt down and took the copper plate into his arms.
Lin Zhaozhao got on the carriage. Seeing that the carriage was about to leave, Jiang Chunlan became anxious.
"Lin Zhaozhao, I am your third aunt!
Don’t you remember, when we were in Wucheng..."
Hearing Lin Zhaozhao's name, Zhou Yixiu opened the car curtain.
"Zhaozhao, she is calling you, do you know her?"
Lin Zhaozhao knew Jiang Chunlan was threatening her and couldn't help gritting his teeth.
Take a deep breath and look up.
"It seems a little familiar.
She must be the third aunt of the Su family. Zhaozhao returned to Wucheng a few days ago.
I heard that my third uncle was killed by Su Jinxiu.
Looking at them like this, it must have been a very difficult journey.
Even though Zhaozhao is not from the Su family, she has been called Third Aunt for so many years.
How can you ignore it?
Mother, please wait a moment while Zhao Zhao goes over to ask?"
Zhou Yixiu frowned and lowered the car curtain.
"What a good Su Jinxiu, but she is so vicious.
They are so filthy, let grandma take them to clean them before coming back.
Otherwise, my family Zhaozhao will be ruined."
My mother and I were planning to go to worship Buddha, but because of Jiang Chunlan's arrival we had to go back home.
After grandma washed the two of them clean and changed their clothes, they brought them to Zhou Yixiu.
Zhou Yixiu sat upright, looking like the mistress of the Hou Mansion, which made people dare not look directly at her.
"I heard from Zhaozhao that you took good care of her when we were in Wucheng.
That's why I want to see you.
Zhao Zhao is a kind-hearted person, and he will remember the slightest kindness from others.
Look for opportunities and repay them well.
As a mother, I don’t want to let her go and get cheated, so I help her out.
I have made up my mind whether I should be rewarded or punished.
Tell me, why are you looking for Zhaozhao?"
Jiang Chunlan knelt on the ground, crying and wiping away tears.
"Mrs. Mingjian, Miss Lin really didn't say anything.
Back in the village, she was praised as a good girl from all over the country.
If Su Jinxiu hadn't forced my men to death, I would not have been able to survive in Wucheng.
I won't flee to the capital either. We orphans and widowers really can't survive.
I just ask Madam to give us a way to survive."
Jiang Chunlan was smart, but Lin Zhaozhao felt relieved.
"Mom, Zhao Zhao thought, Jinxiu definitely didn't do this on purpose.
She had been raised in the Hou Mansion for so many years, so how could she have feelings for the Su family?
The third aunt is so pitiful, I can’t bear it, so I’d better help them!”
Xiao Jingze: "In my eyes, my wife has always been as beautiful as a fairy..."
(End of chapter)
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