"Then it seems that I have to pay more attention to your abilities in the future."
"That's not necessary."
The brief conversation brought the conversation between the two people to an abrupt end.
He raised his head and glanced at the dark sky, "I heard that you used some means to send your uncle to prison?"
"You all know this?!" Mi Xiayao choked.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. She understood the truth, but she didn't expect it to spread so fast.
The man chuckled and glanced at the woman beside him.
"Aren't you a woman who came from a big house? Didn't you even foresee this trick?"
"It would be weird if I had to scheming around those women every day."
Mi Xiayao refuted his words without hesitation.
This is true, her ambition is determined to go beyond this, and Pei Xingyuan appropriately stopped talking.
He was silent for a moment, and finally couldn't help but say: "Aren't you worried about your reputation spreading in the capital?"
Mi Xiayao covered her hands with her sleeves.
"There is nothing to worry about. When I gain status and become famous, sooner or later the tide will change and someone will volunteer to clear my grievances."
As she spoke, she raised her head and looked at the man with her bright eyes.
Pei Xingyuan's Adam's apple surged up and down.
He was so burned by her hot eyes that he didn't dare to look at her anymore, but his strong will told him not to run away.
The pair of pink phoenix eyes looked at her solemnly, "In a few days, it will be the birthday of the eldest princess. Over the years, His Majesty has always said that he respects the eldest princess the most. I think he will do something big in the future."
Mi Xiayao had indeed expected this news.
"Do me a favor then." Pei Xingyuan stopped.
She looked back at him doubtfully.
"Your Majesty has been instigated by someone in the past few years. He always said that he would find a marriage for me, but I have no intention of getting married at the moment. But I can't avoid the eldest princess's birthday party. The prince will definitely take me with him in order to revive Dongshan."
Mi Xiayao finally understood what he meant.
Take your hand out of the cuff, palm up, and stretch it out generously.
Pei Xingyuan looked at the movement of her hand with confusion. He raised his hand suspiciously and covered her palm with his big palm.
The warm touch sticks together tightly, and in the cold winter night, they are like the only babies that can keep each other warm.
But after just a moment of contact, Mi Xiayao withdrew her hand as if she had been burned by the heat.
Pei Xingyuan: "?"
"Whoever asked you to hold it, I asked you to give me the money."
Mi Xiayao raised her eyebrows and looked at the man in front of her with calculating eyes.
"If you want money, you should have told me earlier. I thought you needed to warm your cold hands." Pei Xingyuan muttered dissatisfied.
He clenched his palms, vaguely seeming to retain some of the other person's remaining warmth.
Deep in his heart, he carefully collected it.
"The favor you owed me last time—" he reminded her in a deliberate tone, his voice longer.
Mi Xiayao guessed that he would say this, gritted her teeth and could only glare at him.
"I can help you block the gun, but the subsequent price is another price."
"Okay, as long as I'm here, I'll help you bear the cost."
After the short transaction ended, Mi Xiayao and Pei Xingyuan reached the fork in the road, and they both turned around and went back.
Back in the courtyard, Mi Hanhai was sitting in the main hall with Xiaobao in his arms, while Song Qiao was reading a letter from home in his hand.
The letter sent by my brother in Qingzhou at the beginning of the month did not arrive until the middle of the month. This shows that it takes a long time for Daqi to send distant items nowadays.
Mi Xiayao sat down and frowned again when she thought of Gu Yun's batch of goods.
"Boss, did you tell me about the gift-giving arrangements?"
"Sir, the boss just said that the housekeeper is responsible for it, and housekeeper Yin is watching."
Song Qiao took a look at the contents of the letter and responded quickly.
Mi Yuanqing talked about the wedding arrangements at the beginning of next year, as well as the handling of some industries in Qingzhou, which are all the contents of the family letter.
In her previous life, she had a lukewarm relationship with her brother. Because she was young, she was sent to the capital to be raised by her grandfather, and later she was married to Jingzhou City.
Coupled with an accident at home, Mi Xiayao gradually lost contact with the Mi family.
Now that she heard that her brother was getting married, she vaguely felt that she should go to Qingzhou.
Grandpa was relieved to be released from prison. The subsequent changes in the court, according to the current progress, will still be at least half a year away.
"You, who is half a mother to Xiaobao, don't think about how to arrange Xiaobao's household registration?"
When Mi Hanhai saw his daughter, he wanted to talk about it.
Mi Xiayao retracted her chaotic thoughts. She glanced at the little treasure in her father's arms and recalled the scene of the widow telling lies. The bright and yellow book suddenly evoked her memory again.
"Don't worry about Xiaobao. He won't leave yet, and he won't be able to attend the school for a while."
After perfunctory with her father, she hurried back into the house and began to rummage through the cabinets to find the bright and yellow book.
She flipped through a few pages, which were full of explanations on related technical attainments. Her hand finally landed on cast iron, and she thought about it for a long time.
It seemed that she had to find time to have a serious chat with Pei Xingyuan.
——
While Mi Xiayao is busy renovating the tavern these days, she is also waiting for the fabric goods sent by Gu Yun and the birthday of the eldest princess.
Sure enough, after Grandpa was released from prison, although the Mi family's status in the capital was still awkward, for Master Mi's sake, no one dared to say anything unpleasant to his face.
That is, when no one from the aristocratic family sent invitations to the Mi family, and the Mi family was deliberately ignored for several days of banquets.
A golden invitation fell into the main hall of the Mi family.
Completely established the Mi family's foothold among the aristocratic families in Beijing.
Mi Xiayao was pushed to the third floor of the tavern by the servants of Mi Mansion, and she was forced to come to Mi Mansion.
Then she saw a rare group of people looking at her with different expressions.
Among them, Mr. Mi Er's face was the most prominent. He looked at her with a gloomy look and a bit of jealousy.
"Ayao, when did you meet the eldest princess?"
Master Mi, who was sitting in the main seat, asked directly.
Mi Xiayao immediately realized that the invitation was from the eldest princess.
In fact, to be honest, this is really not an invitation she got just because she met the eldest princess... I'm afraid she has to ask Pei Xingyuan for the secret.
She walked into the room bravely and said, despite everyone's hot eyes, "I had the honor to have a few words with Princess Yongning at the palace banquet some time ago. Maybe Your Highness will remember A-Yao that day."
There were no loopholes in his words, and others felt that the matter could never be that simple, but Master Mi replied with a "good" sentence, and now no one dared to question him.
The uncle looked at Mi Xiayao with a kind smile.
"Ayao is now the glory of our Mi family."
When Mi Xiayao heard this, she couldn't help laughing.
At the beginning, he allowed Mr. Mi to scold her for being unruly, which was a disgrace to the women of the Mi family.