Tian An turned his gaze towards the servants from the second house who were still standing there in a daze, looking at each other in bewilderment. "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and pack your things and leave with your master."
"This..." A maid suddenly knelt down in front of Tian An, "I know I was wrong, please don't chase me away, Madam." She saw clearly just now that the second house got nothing, and if they followed it, only hard days would be waiting for them, and they might even have to sleep on the streets.
The other servants reacted and immediately knelt down before Tian An, "We, the servants, know we are wrong. Please don't drive us away, Madam."
Tian An said with a smile: "I can't afford to be a fence-sitter like you who can only share wealth but not adversity. Otherwise, I will have to worry about being stabbed in the back by you one day!
Time is running out, so I advise you to pack up your things and ask the people from the second house to take you with them, otherwise you will end up with nothing."
After that, he sat back in the main seat, leisurely drank tea, ate snacks, and took the opportunity to get in touch with the third uncle and aunt from the third room.
"Uncle and Aunt, although we are officially separated, you can still live in the mansion as before. Everything remains unchanged."
Third Aunt Jiang was a smart and gentle woman. When she heard this, she knew that the two people's drama of dividing the family today was just targeting the second branch.
Although life in the Duke's Mansion was not easy in the past, she and Zhao Ningyan had considered moving out, but if they moved out, given their status and position as a couple, their children's marriages would be greatly affected.
Just now, Zhao Yiming said that he wanted to split up the family. Although they felt it was a pity, they still agreed without saying a word. They thought they could only accept the reality, but they didn't expect that things would take a turn for the better.
Jiang had no airs of an elder at all. She stood up and was about to thank Tian An.
"Aunt San, you're too polite. This mansion is so big, it would be so lonely for my husband and I to live alone! If it weren't for the bad intentions of my second uncle and the others, my husband and I would not have done such a heartless thing!" Tian An said with regret.
After saying this, she looked at the four children standing obediently behind Zhao Ningyan and Jiang, and said kindly, "These are the sisters Qinhua and Ranhua, and the brothers Shengyong and Shengze, right?
In the past, my second uncle was so cruel that he made your whole family squeeze into a small courtyard.
There will be more empty courtyards in the future, so each of you can choose the one you like!"
Jiang was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to her senses and asked her four children to come over to express her gratitude.
After Zhao Qinhua and Zhao Ranhua performed the proper thank you ceremony as instructed by their mother, they stood behind their parents again, carefully looking at Tian An from time to time.
When her gaze met Tian An's, she quickly lowered her head with a red face. Guessing that Tian An had looked away, she couldn't help but look up at her.
After this happened two or three times, Tian An finally couldn't help but ask them, "Qinhua, Ranhua, why do you keep looking at me secretly?" She reached out to touch her face and turned to look at Zhao Yiming, "Is there something dirty on my face?"
Zhao Qinhua and Zhao Ranhua hurriedly explained when they saw this, "No, there is nothing dirty on my cousin's face."
"Then what are you two doing..." Jiang turned to look at her two daughters in confusion.
Being stared at like this by everyone, the two sisters blushed to their ears, twisting their handkerchiefs nervously in their hands, lowering their heads and stammering, "Yes, it's my cousin's wife. My cousin's wife is so beautiful. I, we, couldn't help it for a moment, and..."
Before they finished speaking, the two of them raised their heads slightly to glance at Tian An, and saw that Tian An was looking at them with a smile on his face, and then they lowered their heads in panic.
Jiang had never expected this to be the reason. She was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "These two children..."
Tian An was delighted to be praised, and he immediately instructed Li Xiang, "Today, something urgent happened, and I didn't have time to bring gifts to Qinhua and Ranhua. Lixiang, please prepare a set of skin care products suitable for their skin types and send them over.
I guarantee that my two younger sisters will be prettier than my cousin’s wife after using it.”
Zhao Qinhua and Zhao Ranhua looked at each other excitedly, then looked at their mother. Seeing Jiang nod, they bowed and thanked her, "Thank you, sister-in-law. I've heard that the skin care products in your Huanyanfang are very good. Today I can finally use them."
Hearing this, Tian An was not stingy and waved his hand directly, "From now on, your skin care products will be covered by your cousin's wife."
"My cousin's wife is so nice." The two girls were very happy.
As the two families came and went, they quickly became familiar with each other.
And half an hour passed slowly as several people chatted with each other.
When the time came, Li Xiang reminded Tian An on time, "Madam, the time is up."
Tian An didn't even raise his head and said directly: "Then go and tell your uncle and aunt to leave!"
After Lixiang left, she personally took people to ask the people from the second house to leave the house.
The concubines came back first and had almost finished packing. When they heard that the time had come, they, who used to be as weak as willows in the wind, all carried the large and small bags without asking anyone for help.
The servants didn't have much stuff, and each of them only had a small bag behind them.
Wang's mother and daughter had a lot of things, but they only carried two personal bags and asked the servants to take care of the rest. When Lixiang came, the mother and daughter were ordering people to remove the bed curtains.
Looking inside the room again, everything that could be taken away had been packed up with bed sheets.
When the mother and daughter saw Lixiang coming, they were not as unreasonable as before. After having the bed curtains folded up, they led people out of the yard and walked towards the back door of the Duke's Mansion.
In Old Lady Cao's yard, the old woman was instructing the servants to pack up things while listening to her son's complaints. She was really overwhelmed.
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