Chapter 351 Peace of Mind

Song Ruize had just returned home and walked through the long corridor towards his bedroom. When he reached the small courtyard, he saw a stove on the stone table with a pot on the stove. The thick soup in the pot was bubbling and emitting a rich aroma.

A green figure came over carrying various side dishes. When he saw him standing there, he smiled and said, "Brother, you're back. Go wash your hands. You can eat now."

Song Ruize watched her busy at the stone table. The heat from the pot rushed up, and the smoke made her bright face appear and disappear, as if she had entered a fairyland.

Qin Huiyin didn't hear the voice and looked over in confusion: "Brother, what are you daydreaming about?"

Song Ruize smiled faintly: "Okay, I'll go wash my hands."

Finally, there was someone in this house waiting for him to come back.

Even though he had dozens of servants before, and every time he came back, he could hear the servants bowing, he always felt empty, as if the whole mansion lacked the breath of life.

Now he understood that he missed having someone waiting for him, someone cooking all kinds of delicious food for him, and someone caring whether he had slept well and eaten enough.

"I brewed this wine myself. It's fruit wine. It's not harmful to your health. Drinking a little can help you stay healthy." Qin Huiyin poured two glasses of fruit wine. "I'm going to be sixteen soon. I can try this fruit wine."

Song Ruize looked at her craving for wine and smiled faintly: "You drank a lot before, didn't you?"

"No way?" Qin Huiyin denied it and handed him a piece of mutton. "Try it, today we have mutton hotpot."

"Do your family know that you are not going back?"

"I know!" Qin Huiyin said, "You and Sister Xia are the only places I can go to in Beijing. If they can't find me, they will go to these two places to look for me."

An hour later, Song Ruize saw Qin Huiyin, who was drunk and red in the face. He carried her into the house and called two maids to take care of her.

"From now on, you two will be responsible for taking care of the young lady." Song Ruize said calmly.

"Young lady brought two maids last time. If we follow you, will you agree?" One of the maids was eager to become Qin Huiyin's personal maid. After all, there was only one male master in this mansion, and he was as cold as ice on weekdays. If she could serve the young lady who smiled all day long, her life would be so easy.

"When she comes back, you two will be responsible for serving her. At other times, it depends on her opinion. If she doesn't like so many people following her, then she can just stay in the house."

"yes."

Song Ruize looked at Qin Huiyin lying on the bed and ordered, "Prepare the hangover soup."

Xia Ruwan had just come out from the embroiderer's place when she heard some banging noises in the yard next door. She called the servants and asked what was going on next door.

"Miss, no one lived in the yard next door before, and new neighbors moved in today."

Xia Ruwan waved her hand and asked the servant to go down.

At this time, the housekeeper walked in and said, "The neighbors sent a gift box, saying that we will be neighbors in the future and asked us to be considerate of them."

Shuhui took it, opened it, and showed it to Xia Ruwan.

Xia Ruwan took a look and found that it was actually pastries.

This pastry is quite fragrant and looks tempting.

She pinched a piece, took a bite, and said in surprise: "It's even better than Luo Ji's pastry."

"Miss, should we return the gift?" Shuhui said, "The other party is so polite, we can't be rude."

"He sent cakes, so why don't we send food too! Did you make fried fish today? Send some of that over." Xia Ruwan said, "Since we are neighbors, we will inevitably have to deal with each other in the future. Getting along well can save a lot of trouble."

Qin Huiyin came back from Song's house early in the morning. When she passed by Xia Ruwan's house, she saw a plaque being hung next door. She looked up and saw "Li's House" written on it.

Li? It can't be...

Qin Huiyin did not enter the Tang residence, but entered the Xia Garden.

"Is your young lady awake yet?"

"Yes. She just went to discuss the color of the flowers with the embroiderer. She is picking flowers in the garden now. She plans to make flower cakes herself at noon."

Qin Huiyin found Xia Ruwan who was picking flowers in the garden and said to her, "Someone lives next door to you."

"Yes, he was quite polite. He sent me some pastries yesterday, saying that he had just moved in, so he came to say hello and make friends with his new neighbor." Xia Ruwan said as she picked flowers. "You are right across the street, so he should have sent you some too! The pastries there are better than Luo Ji's, they are sweet but not greasy, and very delicious. You can go back and try them."

"Have you seen the owner next door?"

"Not really." Xia Ruwan said, "It's just a courtesy. We don't need to meet in person, right?"

The housekeeper came in again and handed us two invitations: "Miss, Miss Qin, there is an invitation from next door, saying that he has moved to a new house and wants to invite us to a warm-house banquet."

"We don't know each other, isn't it a bad idea for him to call us to the greenhouse?" Xia Ruwan looked up. "This man is so attentive, is there any conspiracy?"

"Go and tell them that our two families will be there." Qin Huiyin said to the housekeeper, and then said to Xia Ruwan, "Since this new neighbor is so strange, we have to go and see who he is. Is he so attentive because he is warm and hospitable or has some other purpose? We can only know when we see it with our own eyes."

If she was just suspicious just now, now that she saw the other party invited them to warm the room, she was almost certain that it was Li Congxiao.

She suddenly felt a little worried about Xia Ruwan. Although she was very smart and a big shot in the business world, she was still a teenage girl. How could she be a match for the playboy who frequented brothels?

No, she had to control it for her good sister. If Li Congxiao showed any insincerity towards Xia Ruwan, she would be the villain who broke up the couple.

"Then we have to prepare a gift." Xia Ruwan handed the flowers to Shuhui who was standing beside her. "Shuhui, there is an agarwood inkstone among the things I brought. You can find it and give it to the neighbor when we go to warm up the house tonight."

"yes."

"Then I'll go back and prepare the gifts."

"Is there anything to do today?" Xia Ruwan asked.

"Let's go check out the construction site later!" Qin Huiyin said, "Those two streets are civilian areas with a terrible environment. All the houses have to be demolished. Let's keep an eye on them and make sure the craftsmen don't spread those things everywhere and affect other people's lives. In addition, we have to control the working hours. We can't start too early in the morning or too late at night, otherwise it will disturb the residents. I have hired a large number of workers and plan to shorten the time as much as possible and use half a year to rebuild. We will have a lot of work to do in the next six months."

"It's a good opportunity to use this half year to build some connections, so that we won't run into obstacles when we officially open the business. The waters in the capital are very deep, and it's bound to be more difficult for two women like us to make a career here than in the county." Xia Ruwan hugged Qin Huiyin's arm. "But no matter how difficult it is, we will definitely succeed in the end."