Chapter 397 Who should I give the hair dye to?

"That's where you're wrong." Lu Qiniang said, "That's how seniority works. If I can't call you great uncle, I can still call you third brother!"

"Third brother can do it." Yun Ting said proudly.

"Hahaha," Lu Qin's mother laughed uncontrollably, "Xiao Yan calls you uncle, and she calls you third brother, so what do you want Xiao Yan to call her?"

"When did Xiao Yan ever call me uncle?" Yun Ting said unhappily, "He's been kicked out of the house and has nothing to do with the Marquis's Mansion anymore. So, his relationship with me, who is not even remotely related, is also gone."

Lu Qiniang thought about it and it seemed like this was the truth.

Xiao Yan saw through Yun Ting's little calculations clearly and said slowly, "I'm used to it. Let's just talk about it according to the seniority."

"No." Yun Ting glared at him fiercely.

Xiao Yan was calm and composed.

"Look at you, you're talking halfway and then you start arguing about seniority." Erya complained, "Aren't you supposed to find a solution for me?"

"Of course." Yun Ting said, "It depends on me. Give me a few boxes of hair dye."

"What are you doing? After talking for so long, do you think you can get my things for free?" Erya snorted.

"I want you to give it to me, are you going to give it to me?" Yun Ting asked her with his eyes wide open, as if he would immediately throw a tantrum if she said no.

"Here, are six boxes enough for you?"

Erya comforted herself that it couldn’t be sold anyway.

She often enslaved Yun Ting and considered it as her wages at the end of the year.

I feel happy when I think about it this way.

"That's almost enough." Yun Ting calculated and decided to give two boxes to his grandmother, two boxes to his great-aunt, and two boxes to his grandmother-in-law. That was enough.

Forget about the others, they’re not big enough and would be a waste if they were used.

"How come it's almost there? Then I'll give you ten boxes." Erya was very generous.

"Alright."

Yun Ting thought that he could give his grandmother a few more boxes so that she could keep them for giving to others.

She rewards people, and no one dares not to use her.

Who wouldn’t feel good after using it?

Won’t this attract repeat customers?

Thinking of this, he said again: "You might as well give me more."

"More? That's enough." Arya muttered, "It's not like I don't have the money."

"I plan to give it to my grandmother so that she can reward people."

Yun Ting told his plan.

Arya's eyes lit up when she heard that. "That's a good idea. Why didn't you tell me earlier? Okay, I'll go and figure out how much is left and bring it all to you."

"No need. This stuff is worthless if you have too much. You can only reward a small number of people, and then others will be tempted to buy it. Besides, you still have to keep it to sell!" Yun Ting said proudly, "It's also fortunate that there is a big shop like Sihai now. Those people will come to buy it after hearing about it."

If it were a small workshop, those people would probably think the products were not good.

"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say." Erya said happily.

Yun Ting curled his lips and said, "You only listen to me when you need me."

Lu Qiniang was a little skeptical and said, "Is that okay? That wouldn't be right, wouldn't it be fake? Wouldn't it be a case of using public power for personal gain?"

"That's nothing. I bought it with my own money as a gift to my grandmother." Yun Ting said, "It's just that I'm too poor now, so I'm buying it on credit."

"It seems inappropriate to trouble the Queen Mother."

"My grandmother isn't afraid of me bothering her. She's just afraid that I won't come to the palace to see her. Don't worry, I know what's going on. She's my own grandmother."

Yunting is going home to celebrate the New Year again.

It was Erya who sent him out.

"I'll be back early." Yun Ting said, "I'll be back after the fifth or sixth day of the new year."

"Why are you back so early?" Erya asked. "You're away from home all year, and you finally get back for the New Year. You should spend time with your grandmother and your father. You also have to go to the palace to accompany the Empress Dowager. It's only a few days, and you're so anxious to come back. You don't need those few days to study. You've studied so hard this year, it's time to take a break."

"Do you really think I study hard?" Yun Ting always felt that he was not working hard enough.

"If that's not considered hard work, then are you going to make everyone else die of exhaustion?"

"I just feel like I wasted a lot of time in the past," Yun Ting said. "I hope I can make up for it."

"You've only lived a few years, and you still have many more years ahead of you. Take your time to improve. No one's urging you to take the imperial examination. If you want, you can ask the emperor for an official position right now. The emperor will certainly consider you carefully and arrange a job for you with less work and more pay."

This is the nephew that the emperor cares about the most.

"That's true. But I still don't want people to say that I relied on connections. Although that's true, I don't want people to say that I'm a fool. No matter what the emperor asks me to do, I have to fight for his dignity."

"That's the right way to think. While the emperor is in good health, find a good position and marry a good wife." Erya said with a smile.

Yun Ting suddenly felt a lump in his throat and couldn't speak.

"Okay, it's cold, you should go back." He said, "I'm leaving now."

The carriage from the Duke's Mansion had been waiting outside for a long time.

"See you next year." Arya waved her hand and watched him get on the carriage.

As the carriage moved further away, Erya murmured, "This year's New Year's celebration isn't as lively as before."

Because Daya and Jiang Xuan are going to the Jiang family to celebrate the New Year.

Jiang Xuan did not mention this, but Lu Qin's mother had already discussed it with Daya.

——No one family can take all the benefits in this world.

Although it was a marriage into the wife's family, they all knew exactly what it was and for whom.

Maybe the Jiang family didn’t know, but they couldn’t pretend to be ignorant in front of Jiang Xuan.

She also has parents, and she was treated as the apple of her parents' eyes and raised with care.

It’s okay to stay at home on weekdays, but during the holidays, I try to go over to reunite with my family.

After marrying into the Jiang family, he can go home for the New Year, which is also a comfort for the Jiang family.

No one in the family said anything, but Erya felt very uncomfortable.

She thought that in the future she would really marry into the family and accompany her parents during every festival.

She is selfish and not as considerate as her mother.

Thinking about it now, people like Chang Hui still feel burdened and that’s not good.

She should actually go find a fatherless and motherless, good-looking, obedient and capable person among the disaster victims—

Oh, you're overthinking it. What's the difference between her wanting to find such a person and looking for a needle in a haystack?

This year, without Daya, the house is indeed not as lively as before.

Lu Qiniang felt empty inside.

But she couldn't say it.

She also has to celebrate the New Year happily with her whole family!

On the evening of New Year's Eve, Lu Qiniang, Erya and Aunt Sang prepared New Year's money together, while Sanya and Xiao Yan were competing in archery in the yard, and the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air could be heard from time to time.

"Jiaojiao is getting more and more powerful." Xiao Yan never hesitated to praise his favorite daughter. "In two years, I think you will be even better than me. Even dad won't be your match."

He wasn't exaggerating much.

When he was a child, he had a lot to learn, including the Six Arts of a Gentleman, which filled up almost all of his time except for sleeping.

He has some talent, but he can't be said to be passionate about these things.

But Sanya is different. She really loves it, so even at such a young age, she can still persist in practicing for a long time every day.

Xiao Yan didn't think Lu Qiniang could become a female general in the future.

But he felt that he would regret it if San Ya did not become a female general.

As they were talking, the voices of servants greeting Jiang Xuan were heard from outside.

"Brother-in-law!"

"Brother-in-law is back?" Sanya's eyes lit up and she ran out, "Sister, sister."

But Xiao Yan felt something was wrong.

These two people just left this morning and said they would come back after returning to their parents' home on the second day of the New Year. How come they came back in just half an hour?

Besides, Daya definitely didn’t come back.

Because if she were there, the people in the mansion would definitely call her "Big Miss" first. This was a good lesson taught by Aunt Sang.