"What did you say? You unfilial son!"
Marquis Qingping was furious.
Qi Yunxiao grabbed Shen Qingyu and the two children and strode out.
Lady Qingping was immediately alarmed!
"Father and son, talk this out! Why are you arguing?"
"I'm not her biological mother after all. If she doesn't want to call me that, so be it! What's the big deal?!"
Money is the most important thing!
The last time Qi Yunxiao came home, he ran away without giving any money, leaving the family destitute.
During this period, they survived by pawning items used for clan ancestral worship.
The Ghost Festival is just a few months away, and if those things aren't redeemed by then, it'll be a huge embarrassment!
Moreover, if Qi Yunxiao doesn't give them money, how will they survive right now?
Continue pawning?
If I pawn it again, I can only pawn hairpins and jewelry.
How did the women go out and socialize?
Marquis Qingping was pulled back and realized that he really couldn't let him leave in anger.
We still need to ask him for money!
"You are the heir of my Qingping Marquis's mansion, and the father of three children. You just want to leave at the slightest disagreement? Is this how you raise your children?"
These words caused Qi Yunxiao to stop in his tracks.
He turned to look at Marquis Qingping, a half-smile on his face: "Isn't it because no one in my family taught me when I was young, so I don't know how to teach children?"
That unfilial son!
The veins on Qingping Marquis's forehead bulged again.
Lady Qingping tried to smooth things over again: "The meal is served, let's eat! Let's eat!"
The whole family sat down, filling the table to capacity.
"Eat your vegetables! They won't taste good when they're cold!"
Lady Qingping hurriedly greeted them.
Qi Yunxiao glanced over. The meal was quite plentiful, with fish and meat.
However, Qi Yunxiao, as the manager of Guiyunlou, immediately noticed that the fish was not fresh and had not been killed.
The meat is too fatty.
It seems that the household is truly impoverished, unable to even afford to buy groceries.
Qi Yunxiao lowered his eyes, pretending not to know, picked up the vegetarian dish, ate a couple of bites, quickly finished the rice in his bowl, and then put down his chopsticks.
"I'm stuffed."
Shen Qingyu, like Qi Yunxiao, had also developed a picky palate and soon put down her chopsticks.
The two younger ones followed suit.
As soon as the family of four put down their chopsticks, they could see how the others were eating.
Qi Yunxiao's stepmother's child even knows how to maintain proper table manners.
Those illegitimate sons and daughters, however, had their eyes shining.
Although they tried their best to control their actions and not be too hasty, the way they ate large mouthfuls of food and meat still revealed their living conditions.
Isn't this the Marquis's residence?
How can they be so poor that they can't even afford meat for their own children?
This was the first time Shen Qingyu had learned that even nobles in ancient times sometimes couldn't afford to eat meat.
Thanks to Lady Qingping's forced humor, the dinner table maintained a semblance of harmony.
Marquis Qingping asked, seemingly casually, "When you returned to the manor this time, you didn't stay at home. Why did you stay in Xinghua Lane?"
"Hmm," Qi Yunxiao replied with just one word.
Marquis Qingping: "!!!"
For money, I'll endure it!
"That house belonged to the former Vice Minister of Revenue, and it was confiscated before. How did you get it?"
"I was lucky," Qi Yunxiao replied with three words.
Marquis Qingping: "!!!"
I can't hold back any longer.
Lady Qingping seized on the key point: "That house is now under your name?"
"No. It's under my wife's name."
This kind of thing can be found out by checking with the authorities; it can't be hidden.
"What?!" Lady Qingping's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!
That house was quite famous back then.
The Vice Minister of Revenue was greedy and embezzled money to buy the house, which he then gave to a mistress to live in.
Unexpectedly, trouble struck. His home was raided and sealed off. His mistress ran away, but died suddenly outside the capital a few days later.
So the house was left vacant.
That's Xinghua Lane!
It's a place in the capital city that's famously expensive but has no buyers.
How did it end up under Shen Qingyu's name?
Lady Qingping thought for a moment, then put on a smile: "Now that you have a house there, we can go over and help you take care of the children."
"No need. We'll be leaving soon and going back to the village."
Qi Yunxiao refused.
"You're not staying there? Won't it be abandoned? How about I have someone come and clean it regularly from time to time?"
"No need," Qi Yunxiao refused again. "It's fine to leave it abandoned."
Lady Qingping: "..."
The conversation was so bad it was boring.
Shen Qingyu lowered her head, suppressing a laugh.
Although Qi Yunxiao wasn't good at chatting, he wasn't that bad.
This was purely intentional today!
Fortunately, the power of money was strong, and Lady Qingping quickly adjusted her emotions and decided to take a direct approach.
"Xiao'er, you've been doing business outside, and the household expenses at home have been insufficient for a long time. Could you give me five thousand taels of silver first?"
They still came.
Qi Yunxiao looked up seriously at Marquis Qingping.
Marquis Qingping focused intently on drinking his soup.
Qi Yunxiao waited for him for a moment, and he drank spoonful after spoonful with elegant movements.
No rush, we can wait.
Qi Yunxiao continued to wait.
After finishing a bowl of soup, Marquis Qingping stuffed a piece of green vegetable into his mouth, chewing it with great concentration as he lowered his eyes.
Lady Qingping wanted to say something, but she found that Qi Yunxiao was staring at Qingping Marquis without blinking, and she was immediately annoyed.
At a time like this, is it helpful to be stubborn and save face?
Your son is just waiting for you to speak up!
It's as if the whole family in this mansion isn't your Qi family, and they're all being supported by one woman!
So Lady Qingping fell silent.
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