Qiu Shuang had followed Wei Jianjia since childhood. Hearing the deliberately emphasized word "precious," she immediately understood her mistress's meaning. She smiled slightly and replied, "Yes, Miss, this servant will go and help Young Master Su right away."

Having said that, he didn't wait for Su Dahu's reaction.

He strode forward and snatched the vegetable basket from his hand.

Immediately, his fingers seemingly touched the fine cotton cloth on the basket unintentionally, and with a thud, the cloth fell to the ground.

The abundance of red and green fruits and vegetables was revealed.

Qiu Shuang felt a pleasant fragrance wafting to her nose, but upon closer inspection, although the fruits looked quite nice, she had never seen them before, and immediately smiled.

"Oh dear! Miss, this is full of unknown wild fruits and vegetables, with mud still clinging to the roots. It doesn't look like a gift prepared by Miss Su and Young Master Su at all. It looks more like things they picked up somewhere to feed their chickens and ducks!"

As she spoke, she peeked at the brother and sister through a slit in her eye, her cold mockery and ridicule almost tangible.

I originally thought that even if the Su siblings were poor, they would at least spend a few taels of silver to buy some presentable fruits and vegetables to make a show of themselves.

It turned out to be some wild fruit that they had picked from who-knows-where!

This is treating the Qin family like some nameless nobody.

"Qiushuang, don't talk nonsense!" Wei Jianjia scolded the maid, then looked away from the vegetable basket and smiled at Su Hua, her voice soft: "No wonder Miss Su came so late today. Jianjia thought something had happened, but I didn't expect that she had gone to prepare this gift."

However, Miss Su has never dealt with aristocratic families before, so she probably doesn't know this.

In these aristocratic families, dietary control has always been strict. Each family owns its own estate, and all the food served to everyone in the household comes from the estate. They would never casually eat things from unknown sources outside.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong with the food, it will be very difficult to explain the situation.

After saying that, she hurriedly told Qiu Shuang to take the things away and then gently suggested to Li Hongyan, "Aunt, although these fruits are inedible, they are still a token of Miss Su and Young Master Su's goodwill. They were brought all the way from the village to the county town, so it wouldn't be good to just throw them away."

Doesn't our household happen to have a big black dog that loves to eat fruit?

If it likes to eat them, then these wild fruits can be given to the big black dog. What do you think, Aunt?

Qiu Shuang, carrying her vegetable basket, stood a little further away as instructed, biting her lip. "Miss, the big black dog eats very fine food every day, I'm afraid he won't like what's in here."

The master and servant were practically saying that Su Hua and Su Dahu were unsophisticated and that the things they brought were only fit to be fed to dogs.

No, it should be said that they wouldn't even look down on a dog.

However, Su Hua had already experienced Wei Jianjia's spoiled and domineering nature, and her expression remained completely unchanged. Su Dahu, who was standing to the side, could no longer bear to listen, and his face darkened slightly as he was about to speak.

But then Qin Yucheng rushed forward, snatched the vegetable basket from Qiu Shuang's hand and hugged it to his chest, giving her a cold glare. "Cousin keeps saying that aristocratic families have many rules, but I don't think your Wei family's rules are any better!"

"A mere maidservant dares to gossip about her master and act as his superior. Is this the proper conduct of the Wei family?"

Seeing his eager and sycophantic manner, Wei Jianjia's smile froze, and she immediately gave Qiu Shuang a wink.

Qiu Shuang suddenly knelt down on the ground.

"Young Master, it was Qiu Shuang's fault. She was too surprised and spoke without thinking. But Qiu Shuang meant well. If you want to blame someone, blame Qiu Shuang. This has nothing to do with Miss."

"Heh, if it weren't for the fact that you've served your cousin for so many years, I would have dealt with you right now!" Qin Yucheng didn't respond at all, only glancing at Wei Jianjia lightly. "Whether the rules of the aristocratic families in the capital are strict or not has nothing to do with our Qin family."

Besides, the food in this basket was a gift from my elder brother and Miss Su, so if my cousin doesn't like it, she should say less.

It won't end up in my cousin's stomach, no matter what!

"Yu Cheng! How can you talk like that?" Wei Jianjia's pretty face turned red with anger after hearing his disrespectful words. "I'm doing this for your sake, for my aunt's sake, and for Ying Xian's sake, okay?"

My aunt suffered greatly when she gave birth to Yingxian, and Yingxian has always been frail. If we don't pay close attention to her diet, what if something happens to her?

Moreover, she is only three years older than him. She had told him many times before not to call her "cousin" but to call her by her name. But he still calls her "cousin" every day. Now it's even more outrageous. His words are all about making excuses for Su Hua and Su Dahu, who are outsiders!

He didn't care about her at all.

Thinking this, she felt even more aggrieved, her eyes stinging and tears streaming down her face.

"Yu Cheng! Say less." Seeing this, Li Hongyan shook her head and glared at her unreliable son.

He then had a maid hand a handkerchief to Wei Jianjia, and chuckled, "Jianjia, don't cry. Yucheng is still thinking of you as a child, laughing and playing together. You shouldn't take a joke between cousins ​​to heart."

Qin Yucheng took two steps back, holding the vegetable basket, and secretly pursed his lips. He hadn't said anything. Compared to what she said about Su Hua and Su Dahu, his words were perfectly normal.

Are women really made of water? Their tears come so easily.

But Su Hua listened to the veiled barbs between her and her maid, and didn't even flinch, let alone shed a tear.

How can there be such a huge difference between people?

He muttered to himself, his gaze lowered, but when he saw the round, red berries in the basket, his eyes lit up instantly. "These, these berries..."

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