Kind-hearted people are mostly like this; as long as there is no deep-seated hatred, even if something infuriating happens, time will soothe half of the anger.
If you hear that the other person has a good reason for what happened and has a tragic past, you will feel pity and it will soothe your partner's anger.
Xiao Yunying smiled. That's how the Luo family is; they're all kind-hearted people. Even if they dislike Luo Sheng for their own reasons, they'll sympathize with him once they know about his experiences and what he went through.
Including herself, putting aside the fact that she occupied the original owner's body, from a third-person perspective, both the original owner and Luo Sheng suffered tragically.
It's not contradictory to sympathize with both of them even though I wasn't directly involved.
Xiao Yunying said, "It's cloudy, it looks like it's going to rain soon. Father and Mother, I'm going back now."
Xiao Yunsong said, "Little sister, please sit for a while longer. I'll go and prepare the pheasant."
When Xiao Yunying returned home with several cleaned pheasants and rabbits, the children had already gone home from school.
They looked like they had only returned a little earlier than her. She stood outside the living room, watching the children get up from the ground, looking like they had just finished kowtowing.
Madam Luo's eyes were red and her expression was agitated. She called them closer.
Xiao Yunying glanced at Luo Xin, who was standing awkwardly to the left of the door, looking like she couldn't fit in. She sighed inwardly, thinking that since Luo Xin wasn't her biological granddaughter, she couldn't treat her the same way.
However, this is only natural, after all, there are differences in closeness and distance.
She called softly, "Xin'er."
Luo Xin turned around upon hearing the voice and whispered, "Mother."
"Come on, let's go to the kitchen. I'll cook you rabbit and stewed pheasant."
Luo Xin then smiled slightly: "Okay."
Zheng Yunwan, who had been following Luo Xin, naturally went to the kitchen with her.
Xiao Yunying gave Luo Xin two heads of garlic to peel, and then rolled up her sleeves to prepare the wild game herself.
As they were chopping and blanching the pheasant and rabbit, Zuo Lanzhi's maid, Yinzhu, entered through the door of the waiting room carrying two boxes.
What should we eat tonight?
Xiao Yunying ignored her and focused on chopping the rabbit on the cutting board, making loud thumping sounds.
Whether Yinzhu was completely oblivious to Xiao Yunying's dislike for her, or was deliberately trying to annoy her, she approached her and said:
"This is the tea our young lady is used to drinking, and these are her favorite tea sets. Please boil the water, brew the tea, and bring it up in a moment."
Xiao Yunying scooped the chopped rabbit meat into a basin, then looked up and gestured for her to look towards the small stove: "The kettle is over there, boil water yourself."
Yinzhu placed the box on the stove: "I still have to serve our young lady, how can I have time to boil water? Besides, you accepted six hundred taels of silver from our young lady, what's wrong with boiling a kettle of water?"
Xiao Yunying washed the blood off the rabbit meat chunks: "The money your young lady gave me was only for last night's lodging and this morning's meals; the cost of boiling water is extra."
Yinzhu was so angry she choked: "You...you're obsessed with money."
Xiao Yunying turned around and smiled at her: "Yes, with money, everything is negotiable."
Yinzhu said disdainfully, "She really is a village woman raised in a remote and impoverished place. She is crude and ignorant and only recognizes money."
Before Xiao Yunying could speak, Zheng Yunwan walked over and said, "No matter how bad Sister Yunying is, she is still Luo Sheng's wife and the young mistress of the Luo family. How can you, a mere maid, be allowed to humiliate her here?"
This was the first time Xiao Yunying had seen Zheng Yunwan so angry, so forcefully reprimanding someone. She was surprised and looked at her without saying a word.
Luo Xin was a little afraid of Yin Zhu, so she took small steps to Xiao Yunying's side and held her hand.
Yinzhu glanced at Luo Xin: "Am I wrong? They're all equally unworthy of respectability, but they're experts at flattery."
Xiao Yunying released Luo Xin's hand and looked behind Yinzhu.
Luo Sheng, who had just walked in, also looked at her without saying a word.
Yinzhu felt that the other person's gaze was behind her. Just as she was about to turn around, she saw Xiao Yunying smile slightly and forcefully sweep the two brocade boxes on the stove to the ground.
You could hear the sound of porcelain shattering even through the box.
Yinzhu exclaimed in surprise, "Are you crazy? Do you know how valuable this set of clear water teaware is?!"
Xiao Yunying curled her lips again, revealing a smile without any real joy, and raised her hand to slap Yinzhu.
"I don't know what kind of etiquette and upbringing the Minister's family has, that they could raise a maid like you who dares to belittle the General's daughter in public!"
Regardless of whether Luo Xin is the biological daughter of the Luo family, she is nominally a child of the Luo family, a fact acknowledged by both Luo Sheng and Madam Luo.
Even without the title of Fourth Miss of the General's Mansion, Xiao Yunying would not allow anyone to belittle or insult Luo Xin or any other family members.
The slap was delivered with all its might, causing Yinzhu to stagger and fall to the ground, tripped by the firewood beside her.
Perhaps Xiao Yunying's anger was too intense, leaving Yinzhu momentarily at a loss for how to react. She covered her face and stood there dumbfounded for a long time.
Xiao Yunying picked up a brocade box that was closest to her, shook it, and heard the sound of porcelain clinking inside. She then opened it and took a look.
The white porcelain jar containing tea leaves was shattered and mixed with the tea leaves. Xiao Yunying walked up to Yinzhu and poured the tea leaves mixed with broken porcelain onto her.
After Xiao Yunying finished emptying the box, she threw it at her as well: "I've put up with you for a long time. A mere maid, yet you really think you're the master, trying to order everyone around."
Yinzhu instinctively hugged the brocade box: "Are you crazy? Do you even know what this tea is like...?"
"I don't know." Xiao Yunying interrupted her, "Don't mess with me again, get out."
The commotion in the kitchen was quite loud, and Xiao Yunying didn't bother to lower her voice, which attracted Madam Luo to come and see what was going on.
Madam Luo looked at Yinzhu, who was sitting on the ground covered in tea leaves and broken porcelain, with a puzzled expression, and asked Xiao Yunying, "What happened?"
Luo Sheng, who had been silent all along, spoke first, looking at Zuo Lanzhi behind Madam Luo and saying, "The Minister's family is truly well-mannered, raising a maid to be more arrogant than the Minister himself. She even dared to ask my wife to boil water and make tea, and dared to criticize my wife and young daughter for being vulgar and ignorant, only good at flattering, and not fit for the table!"
Seeing that Luo Sheng seemed genuinely angry, Zuo Lanzhi's face paled, and she stammered, "I... I didn't... it's not true..."
Yinyu felt something was wrong. Although it was her mistress who instructed Yinzhu to deliberately make things difficult for this peasant girl, Yinzhu had become increasingly arrogant and reckless because she felt she had her mistress's backing.
She hurriedly tried to explain for her young mistress: "Young Master Luo..."
Granny Chang scolded, "Shut up! How dare a maid like you interrupt when the master is speaking?"
Yinyu could only shut her mouth and glance worriedly at her young mistress, who was too nervous to speak.
She tugged at her young mistress's hem before Zuo Lanzhi regained some composure: "Brother Luo Sheng, Yinzhu's temperament... is a bit impatient, but she's not that rude... Miss Xiao, have you misunderstood something?"
Xiao Yunying chuckled. She hadn't said a word; it was all Luo Sheng talking, yet he was trying to pin the blame on her.
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