Chapter 454 The Imperial Edict Arrives
"Poisoned?" Lian Xin looked at Xiao Jiuyue in shock.
"Who's so stupid as to poison her? I see the Cui family is anxious to bring Miss Cui back home." Luo Kui said with a puzzled look on her face. "Unless the Cui family is idiots, it would be such a wonderful marriage for Miss Cui to marry into the Xiao family!"
"Heh." Xiao Jiuyue sneered and said, "The Cui family isn't united. Besides, after returning to Shengjing, big brother has been busy farming, right?"
"Yes." Luo Kui nodded.
"The Xiao family hasn't made a clear comeback yet, and my eldest brother is so busy he doesn't have time to visit Cui Yao. How much can the Cui family care about it?" Xiao Jiuyue lowered her eyes and said, "When the Xiao family got into trouble, the Cui family immediately canceled the marriage. Why would the Cui family think that my eldest brother would definitely marry Cui Yao?"
Unless someone as close as Xiao Jiuyue knows what the eldest brother Xiao Jialing is thinking, otherwise, the Cui family really can't figure out what the Xiao family is thinking.
"Yeah, if I were the Cui family, I would have broken off the engagement when the Xiao family got into trouble. Now that the Xiao family has made a comeback, they want to marry into the family again. I wouldn't agree either." Luo Kui nodded in agreement. Anyway, she didn't understand the twists and turns, but when she put herself in their shoes, she understood.
"I'll go see Cui Yao another day." Xiao Jiuyue glanced at the sky outside. She had just returned to the Xiao family and had a lot of things to do. Being cold to the Cui family was the only way to protect Cui Yao.
"Brother, do you know about this?" Xiao Jiuyue suddenly asked.
Lianxin and Luokui exchanged a glance and said, "This matter was handled by Chief Steward Jin. Chief Steward Jin said he would report it to the young lady first."
Xiao Jiuyue nodded slightly and asked, "Well, what else?"
"And then there's Second Madam Fan." Lian Xin mentioned this, her voice tinged with gloating. "At first, Fan would rather divorce and return to the Fan family, but the Fan family was unwilling to take her in, fearing that she would be contaminated by the Xiao family and would affect the Fan family. In the end, they simply married Fan off to the outskirts of Beijing as a concubine."
"Miss, guess who this Fan married?" Luo Kui became excited when she heard this.
Xiao Jiuyue looked at the roses in the yard and said with little interest, "No matter who it is, he's either old, lame, or has lost several wives."
When Fan left, Xiao Jiuyue had basically predicted Fan's fate.
"It's Mr. Chen from Mazhuang, outside Beijing. I heard he's fifty years old and has several sons and grandchildren. Fan is his third wife," Luo Kui replied. "After the Xiao family returned to Beijing, I ran into Fan looking for Miss Yurong, but Miss Yurong didn't even bother to pay any attention."
"Even Young Master Jia'en ignored her." Luo Kui added, "From my perspective, Fan looks ten years older. She doesn't have any of the charm of Concubine Lan."
Aunt Lan went to Hongdu with them, and Luo Kui and Lian Xin became familiar with each other. Aunt Lan had a gentle personality, which was completely different from the domineering Fan.
Three years have passed. Fan used to be wealthy and blessed, but now she is so thin that she looks unrecognizable, and her clothes are still the same as they were a few years ago.
"Ms. Fan, didn't you go to stop your second uncle?" Xiao Jiuyue raised her eyebrows. Since Lianxin specifically mentioned Mrs. Fan, it shouldn't be just this, right?
"Why didn't you go? Even the Second Master doesn't dare to go out now." Lian Xin wiped her hair carefully while saying, "Miss, Mr. Chen's horse farm used to have a very good business, but now, no one goes there anymore. The Chen family has many sons, and they are all big spenders."
"As long as my second uncle and the others are not soft-hearted, nothing we do to the Fan family will be of any use." Xiao Jiuyue skipped over the Fan family.
Lian Xin was also very tactful and skipped over this matter. She hesitantly said, "The biggest event in Shengjing recently was that Prince Song and his wife had an argument while boating on Ruqin Lake. When they got off the boat, the wife set fire to the pleasure boat."
"Song Mingyuan and Mu Yinqiu?" Xiao Jiuyue said with great interest, "Mu Yinqiu has been married into the Song family for two years now, and I heard they have no children."
Returning to Shengjing, we will have to face each other sooner or later. Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we win every battle!
What's more, she was very interested in Mu Yinqiu's jokes.
Lian Xin saw Xiao Jiuyue's interested expression and said, "Miss, this is about the Qiqiao Festival last month. It caused a big uproar. I later went to find out. It was because Song Mingyuan took his concubine on a boat trip and was caught by Mu Yinqiu, and that's when the argument started."
"Her expression at that time must have been colorful." Xiao Jiuyue raised her lips slightly: "It's good news, there's more."
Xiao Jiuyue's hair was half dry when she listened to Lian Xin continue to talk. "There are two more princesses in Shengjing. It's quite lively right now. At the flower viewing banquet, the fifth princess gave flowers to Mr. Jiang. I heard that the emperor is interested in arranging a marriage."
"Also, the Sixth Princess is ill, and they're looking for famous doctors." After Lian Xin finished speaking, Xiao Jiuyue asked, "Do you know what the illness is?"
"I don't know." Lian Xin shook her head: "I specifically asked around, but I didn't find out anything."
"Oh, there's another piece of great news!" Lian Xin said impatiently, "The Third Prince has triumphed over Yongzhao and has returned to the capital. Yongzhao has sent the Crown Prince and Princess to present tribute. I heard the Princess is here to marry a foreign prince."
"That's really a great thing." Xiao Jiuyue raised her lips slightly, feeling particularly good.
After drying her hair, Xiao Jiuyue simply tied it up and went to the main courtyard for dinner.
Xiao Jiuyue had just reached the halfway point when she ran into Xiao Jialing who was returning home. Xiao Jialing had just returned from the fields and was dusty. He had simply washed and changed his clothes, and his hair was still wet. When he saw Xiao Jiuyue, he quickly stepped forward and said, "Yuer."
"Brother." Xiao Jiuyue thought that he would feel strange after not seeing him for three years, but looking at his resolute eyebrows and gentle voice, a sense of familiarity came over her.
He and Xiao Jiayuan are brothers, but their features are different. Xiao Jialing looks more like his mother, handsome and elegant.
"Thanks to Yue'er, big brother has now become an official." Xiao Jialing raised his lips slightly: "Si Nong, in charge of farming, rice planting and cultivation."
"Congratulations, big brother." Xiao Jiuyue followed up on his words and asked, "So, have the fields outside Shengjing seen an increase in production this year?"
"Of course." Xiao Jialing nodded affirmatively and said proudly, "Thanks to Yue'er's method, the first batch of rice we just harvested has a yield of 810 kilograms per mu! This is 150 kilograms more than last year's 660 kilograms!"
"Of course, this is the best farmland. If it were inferior farmland, the grain would probably be less, but it is definitely more than before." Xiao Jialing had just presented the news of the bumper grain harvest to the emperor, and the emperor was particularly happy!
"That's great! No one needs to worry about going hungry." Xiao Jiuyue was just about to ask about Cui Yao when she heard Chief Steward Jin arrive: "Miss, Master, the imperial edict has arrived. Master invites everyone to the front hall to receive it!"
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