Chapter 75 She did it on purpose!
"You!" Old Madam Lin's face flushed red and she almost fainted.
If Song is the mistress of this general's mansion, then what is she?
Wouldn't it be a laughing stock if this got out?
The old lady became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. Tears began to fall uncontrollably, and she looked at Lin Tingfeng with disappointment in her eyes.
He was her son, the one she had carried for ten months and risked her life to give birth to. How could he say such sad words to her just for the Song family?
The more Madam Lin thought about it, the sadder she became. She felt a black screen in front of her eyes and her body staggered a little.
"Mother!" Lin Tingxuan quickly supported her and said nervously, "You seem to be feeling unwell. I'll ask someone to call Doctor Lu over right away."
The old lady closed her eyes tightly, shook her head, and asked in a sorrowful voice, "Feng'er, do you think that mother is someone who can't tell right from wrong and would torture her daughter-in-law?"
The only person who answered her was Lin Tingxuan's cautious voice, "Mother, my second brother has passed away."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Old Madam Lin suddenly opened her eyes, and her sight just caught the back of Lin Tingfeng, leaning on a cane, disappearing around the corner.
Her body softened and she almost fell into Lin Tingxuan's arms.
The old lady grabbed her arm and murmured, "Magic, that little bitch from the Song family must know magic..."
Otherwise, how could Feng'er, who has always been obedient and sensible, become like this?
In the past, even if she told lies, he would always choose to believe them without hesitation. But today, he didn't believe a single word of the truth she told.
It’s the Song family. She must be the one behind this!
Lin Tingxuan patted her back to calm her down and gently reminded her, "Mother, there are people here."
The old lady came back to her senses, her gloomy eyes fell on the two women who were kneeling and trembling on the ground. She gritted her teeth and said, "Drag them away and beat them to death!"
"Madam, please spare me, Madam, please spare me!"
Looking at the two women fighting over the ground, Lin Tingxuan frowned and said, "Mother, my second brother has always disliked the fighting in the mansion. If he finds out, I'm afraid he will be angry again."
Madam Lin asked coldly, "Do you really have to go and tell him?"
Lin Tingxuan suddenly realized what was going on and said with disgust, "These two old idiots are incompetent and can't even understand a single word. They almost made you a laughing stock. Killing them would be too easy for them."
As she spoke, her eyes lit up, "Mother, why don't you hand the person over to me?"
Madam Lin's eyes were heavy, as if she had seen through her thoughts. She coldly reminded her, "You are the daughter of the General's Mansion. Don't let the blood of these lowly slaves dirty your hands."
"My daughter listens to her mother."
Fearing that she might be feeling depressed, Lin Tingxuan deliberately said as she supported her on the way back, "My sister-in-law wrote yesterday saying that if Mother is in a good mood one day, she can invite my eldest brother, sister-in-law, and second brother to stay at her farm in the suburbs of Beijing for a few days, eat, enjoy the flowers, and even take a bath..."
"You've never been to the farm in your entire life?" Old Madam Lin frowned and couldn't help but interrupt her.
Hearing that she was in a bad mood, Lin Tingxuan said a little aggrievedly: "Mother, why are you so angry? My sister-in-law also means well. She is worried that you will be angry with the Song family and do something bad..."
"That's enough." Madam Lin said impatiently with a gloomy face, "Look at how useless you are. Zhuang Shihan bribed you with just a few small favors. You haven't even gotten married yet, and yet you keep calling me sister-in-law. How shameful is that?"
Lin Tingxuan was stunned by what she said and couldn't help asking, "Didn't mother like my sister-in-law very much before? Besides, the emperor has already issued the imperial decree granting the marriage. We are just waiting for my second brother to recover from his injury and set an auspicious date for the wedding."
Madam Lin asked back, "When did I ever say I didn't like her?"
"But..." Lin Tingxuan hesitated to speak.
She really wanted to tell her that the disgust in her mother's eyes was not hidden at all, but she was afraid of angering her and dared not speak.
Seeing her cowardly look, Madam Lin became even more angry. "Your father and I are both smart people. I don't know how we gave birth to such a fool like you."
Lin Tingxuan stuck out her tongue and said with a smile, "Don't be angry, mother. At worst, I'll just follow my sister-in-law and learn a little more. I'm sure I can make you happy."
Madam Lin sneered, her face full of disdain. "What can you learn from her? Showing off your wealth and doing business outside, or eating and living with those soldiers on the battlefield? Don't you find it disgusting?"
Thinking of something, her face suddenly darkened and she said sternly, "If you dare to follow her example and have an affair without a matchmaker, and bring shame to the General's Mansion, I will break your legs!"
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When Zhuang Shihan came to the Princess's Mansion, Song Yanxi was sitting in the yard bored, playing chess with his left hand and right hand to practice his chess skills.
I won’t talk about how much progress I have made, I just hope that when I go to Prince Jin’s Mansion in two days, I can lose less than half a point to His Highness Prince Jin.
She guessed that Zhuang Shihan was coming, but she didn't expect that she could be so patient.
Over the past month, Song Xubai has bought nearly 30 shops in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion at a price almost half of the normal price.
Three of them are located in the East Market, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. The other eight are all in the busy West Market. The worst ones are also close to the market. They are all sold together with the shopkeepers and their employees, and can resume business on the second day after taking over.
There are more than 30 shops, and the daily revenue from opening is nearly 10,000 taels of silver. No businessman can resist such temptation.
As long as they dared to open the shop, Zhuang Shihan could make them lose all their money with just some tricks, and then they would have to return the shop at a discount.
It doesn’t matter whether I make money or not, as long as I can make Song Yanxi unhappy, that’s enough.
Fearing that the Yan family would lend a helping hand, she even had people cause some trouble for the Yan family's shop to ensure that they would not have the extra energy to pay attention to what was happening here.
But she had calculated everything, but she had not expected that the Song siblings, who were supposed to be as greedy as she had imagined, would actually raise the price and sell out all the shops.
Zhuang Shihan was furious and questioned Song Yanxi, "The Yan family is the richest family in Da'an after all. Is this how Mr. Yan taught you to do business?"
Zhuzhi stepped forward and said, "Princess Shihan, please be careful with your words."
Not to mention that she was just a princess, even if her father came today, he would not dare to question their old man like this.
"Who do you think you are? How dare you question this princess?" Zhuang Shihan sneered, strode forward and raised her hand to hit him with the bamboo stick.
Song Yanxi moved even faster, pulling the bamboo stick behind her and looking at her coldly, "Princess Shihan is so arrogant. It's boring to mess around in the Duke's Mansion, so you come to my Princess's Mansion to show off."
Zhuang Shihan's face suddenly darkened, and there was a deep meaning in her eyes.
This Song family is really good at planning and calculating. She even knows everything that happens in the Duke's Mansion.
Did she also anticipate the matter of buying and selling the shop?
"Princess, why are you looking at me like that?" Song Yanxi saw through her thoughts and chuckled, "You sold the shop voluntarily, and no one put a knife to your neck and forced you to do so.
But speaking of it, I really should thank the princess for giving it up. Such a good shop would be worth a lot if I just sold it."
Zhuang Shihan's face darkened instantly. She really did it on purpose!
She suppressed the urge to curse and said through gritted teeth, "If those shops were open for three months, they would make ten times as much, not to mention double the money. Why are you so stingy with money?"
"Is this really true?" Song Yanxi pretended to be surprised and said angrily, "It's all my fault for being so short-sighted. I should have raised the price later."
"It's such a good shop, have you ever thought about keeping it for yourself?" Zhuang Shihan felt painful just thinking about it.
Even the most ignorant person should know that the future value of those shops will be far more than the small amount of money they can be sold for now.
In order to acquire these stores, she used both soft and hard tactics and put in a lot of effort.
Song Yanxi raised an eyebrow, as if she had heard something funny. "Such a good shop, why doesn't the princess keep it for herself? Is there something she can't explain?"
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