Chen Shiying re-arranged the girls' age and said that he would take a day off tomorrow and would write Chen Ahfu's name into the ancestral hall in the morning and put it under Jiang's name. Moreover, the Chu Mansion had sent someone to deliver a note this afternoon. Tomorrow, the old marquis of the Chu family and the third wife of Chu would ask General Fu to be the matchmaker and come to the mansion to make arrangements.
Afterwards, Jiang sat in the main seat and Chen Afu kowtowed to her. She did not call her "mother" but "mother".
Jiang was not very satisfied with this title, but after seeing the tit-for-tat between Chen Afu and the old lady, Jiang really didn't want to offend this young lady again. Not only because she was about to marry into the Chu family, but also because she was really powerful.
Jiang took off a transparent green jade bracelet from her wrist and said with a smile, "My dear daughter, this is what your grandmother left to me. I am giving it to you now. I hope you can get along well with your brothers and sisters in the future and always remember that this is your home."
Chen Afu said, "Thank you, mother." Then he stood up and took the bracelet.
Chen Yuhui was furious. At that time, the old lady had asked Jiang to register him under her name, but Jiang agreed to it. Now she doesn't mention it. And that thing, my grandmother is sick, I don't know if it will continue...
After Chen Ahfu finished greeting, Chen Shiying said, "You siblings should care for each other and be united in the future. Okay, let's go eat."
Chen Shiying took the children to the west wing to eat, while Jiang took the maid who served the food to the old lady's bedroom to serve her meals.
Chen Afu took out the two plates of golden cakes from the food box and placed them on the table.
Chen Shiying took a piece and ate it first, nodding his head and saying, "Well, it's really delicious, sweet, soft and melt-in-the-mouth." He then asked the maid to take two more pieces to the old lady.
Chen Yulan also picked up a piece and ate it, nodding her head and saying, "It's delicious. Is this made by my sister herself? It's better than those snacks sold in the store."
Chen Ahfu smiled and said, "As long as my brother likes it, I can cook a lot of food. I will cook more for him in the future."
After hearing this, Chen Yuqing and Chen Yuxia also hurriedly took the golden cake and started eating it. Especially Chen Yuxia, a child who likes sweets, finished a few bites and wanted to eat more, but was embarrassed to take more, so she was very conflicted.
Chen Afu smiled and gave her another piece.
Chen Yuhui did not eat the golden cake. Even though the special sweet fragrance kept drilling into her nostrils, she was very stubborn and did not take it.
Chen Shiying and Jiang returned to the main courtyard. Thinking of the old lady's flickering eyes, Chen Shiying whispered to Jiang, "Hate can make people lose their minds. My mother is old and confused. Add hatred, I'm afraid she will do something stupid. During the few nights that Fu'er lives in the mansion, you must send a few trusted maids to quietly guard outside the second gate, Hengshou Courtyard, and Rose Courtyard. If something really happens, don't make a big noise. If the Chu family knows that my mother dared to harm Fu'er, they will not let our family go easily." After thinking for a while, he said, "Also, have someone guard outside Tang and Hui'er's courtyards."
Jiang nodded. She was also afraid that the old lady would do something stupid and implicate her husband and children. Not to mention that Chen Afu was powerful, the people in the Chu family, including the old Marquis Chu, Chu Lingxuan, and the third wife of Chu, were not something the Chen family could afford to offend.
On the way back to the Rose Courtyard, Chen Ahfu said to Qiuyue and Qingfeng who were accompanying her to the Hengshou Courtyard, "Don't tell Mother Xu and the silver and jade bracelets about the conflict between me and the old lady today. This is the Chen family's family affair, and it would be bad if they knew about it."
Qingfeng and Qiuyue both nodded in agreement.
Chen Ahfu was not really afraid that the Chen family's bad things would spread out. She knew that she had offended the old lady so much that she would hide in the space every night. She was also afraid that if Xu's mother knew about this, she would insist on entering her bedroom to keep watch, which would be a hindrance.
After returning to the house, Qiuyue and Qingfeng wanted to go to her bedroom to keep watch, but Chen Afu disagreed and asked them to sleep on the floor in the living room so that they could hear any movement in the bedroom.
Mrs. Xu also insisted on keeping watch in the living room. Yesterday she was in Jiang's courtyard, so she was not afraid that Miss Chen would get into trouble. But now she was alone in the courtyard, so she still had to be prepared.
Chen Afu lay down on the bed, Qiuyue lowered the curtains, extinguished the candle, then closed the door and went out.
Chen Afu lay down for a while, then quietly got up, put the pillow upright in the quilt, and tiptoed to the bathroom.
The door to the bathroom was next to the bed, with two doors, one facing the bedroom and the other facing the backyard. She locked both doors and slipped into the space.
She leaned against the Yanchenxiang tree, thinking that if things went well, the matchmaker would come to propose marriage tomorrow, and the official matchmaker would come to propose marriage the day after tomorrow. Once the two families had matched their horoscopes and officially got engaged, she would be able to leave the Chen Mansion and return to the countryside...
I fell asleep in a daze, and I don't know how long I slept, when I suddenly heard the light pecking sound at the door outside, followed by the light murmur of a few swallows.
It was the golden swallow. It was saying, "Open the door, it's me."
The clean room had no windows, and once the two doors were locked, it was sealed tightly on all sides. Jin Yanzi couldn't enter the clean room, and couldn't enter the space either.
Chen Afu hurried out of the space and opened the door of the bathroom facing the backyard a little, and the golden swallow flew in.
The man and the swallow entered the space again.
Chen Afu asked, "Why are you here? Is Dabao okay?"
Jin Yanzi said, "Daddy Chu sent someone to bring your father and mother here. After they came, although Chou Dabao was still making a fuss, he was not as bad as before." She chirped again, "If they hadn't come, we wouldn't have been able to see this big show."
"What big show?" asked Chen Afu.
Jin Yanzi said, "I missed my mommy. I saw Dabao fell asleep with grandma, so I came to see mommy..."
As soon as the golden swallow flew over the backyard of the Chen residence, it sensed something was wrong, because there were people hiding under some trees and in the bushes. It was startled, thinking that its mother would be in danger. It flew to the highest rockery in the backyard, where there was a towering tree. It stood on the top of the tree and could see the whole backyard.
Sure enough, at ten o'clock in the night, it saw a man coming out of a yard. Even though the man covered his face tightly, it could be seen from his figure and actions that he was a man.
The man ran straight to Chen Ahfu's yard. When passing by a flower path, three women suddenly emerged from the flowers. The three women raised their sticks and hit the man on the head fiercely. The man ducked and dodged the attack of two women, but was still hit by one woman and fell down. The women hit him a few more times with sticks, tied him up, stuffed his mouth with rags, put him in a sack, and dragged him to a yard.
Chen Shiying and Jiang came out to interrogate him at the same time. They searched his body and found not only a knife but also drugs.
I learned that this man was a relative of Tang's wet nurse, named Wang Sanlang, who worked in a gambling den in Dingzhou and had some skills. This afternoon, Tang's wet nurse found him and said there was a good job. If he did a good job, he could become the son-in-law of the Chen family and get a large sum of money...
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