Mrs. Chu San was much happier. She glared at Li and said, "Now you are so happy. People are driven away by you. Well, go away, go away. I don't dare to invite you if there is nothing else." She waved her hand and chased Li away with a look of disgust.
Li snorted, stood up and left. The people from the second house also followed her with red faces.
Chu Lingqi and Chu Lingan walked at the end, one clasped his fists to Chu Lingxuan and Chen Afu, and the other bowed to Mrs. Chu San.
After returning to Zhuxuan, Chen Afu said to Chu Lingxuan embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it and made grandpa sad."
Chu Lingxuan sighed, "It's not your fault. If you don't give Second Aunt some strength, she will always find trouble to bully you. Second Aunt is narrow-minded, selfish, and greedy. Grandmother was able to suppress her during those years when she was alive. After Grandmother passed away, Grandfather didn't know how to discipline his daughter-in-law, and he loved Second Uncle, so he indulged her a little." He added, "Although I grew up here, I don't feel any sense of belonging here anymore. Let's go back to Tangyuan, which is our real home. You have to be patient for a few days, and we will leave Beijing on the 21st."
Rong Zhao and Li, one doing things outside and the other doing things at home, made the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion a mess. If it weren't for Mrs. Chu San coming back to calm things down, who knows what would have happened. Perhaps, they had this idea in mind, so that the real owner of the Marquis' Mansion would never come back.
Even though the Chu family men were deliberately playing a defensive game, it's still hard to accept that the unfavorable ones squeezed the decent ones to the point that they didn't want to go home.
Chen Ahfu asked, "When grandpa and grandma were looking for a wife for my second uncle, they didn't ask anyone about it. How come they found this kind of troublemaker?"
Chu Lingxuan said, "Why didn't you ask? It turns out that they were attracted to Second Aunt's elder sister. Who would have known that before they got engaged, Second Uncle had fallen in love with Second Aunt for some reason and insisted on marrying her..."
I don’t know what tricks Li used.
Chen Ahfu thought that the old man didn't have a good meal, so he went to the backyard kitchen and made a small pot of lean meat and preserved egg porridge. In this era, there were preserved eggs, but they were eaten as vegetables, and no one had ever made porridge. This porridge was novel, soft, smooth, and fragrant. Because the water used to soak the swallowwood was added, it was even more fresh and fragrant, and the fragrance spread far away.
She sent people to deliver the porridge to the old man, the second master, the third master, and the third wife. Chen Ahfu had no appetite, so Chu Lingxuan ate the remaining two bowls of porridge.
After drinking two bowls of porridge, he was no longer angry and watched Chen Afu make a little tiger doll for Li Xuan.
At this time, the elders sent people to ask for more porridge, saying that they were not full and wanted more. Chu Guangkai asked Chu Lingxuan to go to the outer courtyard again to discuss something.
Chen Ahfu put down her work and went back to work. Only after she had appeased those people could she feel relieved.
After it was ready, she asked someone to bring it to them. She took a small bowl back to her bedroom and locked the door.
Xia Yue and Yu Zhuo were already used to Chen Afu's behavior. Hong Fei, who was on duty, was still a little sad, wondering if she didn't trust her master. Later, Xia Yue told her, "The master is like this. He said that everyone has privacy and is not used to having someone following him at any time."
Hong Fei was relieved. Of course, this is a story for later.
Chen Afu entered the space and saw Jin Yanzi still fiddling with Jin Bei. He said, "Baby, look, mommy brought you some fresh food."
Seeing that Jin Yanzi had eaten half a bowl, she negotiated, "Baby, give Mommy some more leaves. Not too much, just enough to make your eye boogers."
The golden swallow had heard about Wang Xuan's story and rolled her eyes and said, "Mommy, if my previous masters were all like you, helping everyone, then this tree would have become bald long ago. I have long said that only your relatives will help." Then, she held the golden shell in her beak and flew into a golden house.
Chen Ahfu had no choice but to pick up the Xiaoyan agarwood residue soaked in water and break off some of it. Although the Xiaoyan agarwood residue is not as good as the leaves, it is always good for the human body.
She didn't know why, but she just wanted to help little Wang Xuan. Not only because she wanted to befriend Princess Rui, but also because of Wang Xuan's clear eyes, which made her feel distressed.
On the morning of the 18th, Chu Lingxuan took Chen Afu to Hongyun Hotpot Restaurant.
The restaurant is located on Shun'an Street in the capital, the most prosperous street. There are restaurants, silver shops, tea houses, banks, and embroidery shops everywhere, all with white walls, black tiles, and red carved doors and windows. The street is also wide, and eight carriages can run side by side.
The unique way of eating and taste, coupled with Yang Mingyuan's super ability, and the support of the Chu family, made Hongyun Hotpot Restaurant the second largest restaurant in Beijing in just one year, and opened four branches across the country. The speed of growth was astonishing. Although some people later opened hotpot restaurants, none of them could catch up with Hongyun.
As soon as Chu Lingxuan and Chen Afu entered the restaurant, Chen Ayu came up to them with a cheerful face and invited them directly to a private room on the third floor, where Yang Mingyuan, Yang Chao and Yang Qian were already waiting.
As soon as Yang Qian saw Chen Afu, she rushed over and shouted, "Aunt Chen, Aunt Chen, why did you come to see me just now? I missed you so much."
Chen Ahfu smiled and picked her up, kissed her little face and said, "Auntie Chen misses you too."
It was still early for dinner, so they sat down and drank tea and chatted.
Little Yang Qian kept making trouble nearby to attract Chen Ahfu's attention. Yang Mingyuan's face darkened, and Chen Qian's mouth shrank as she saw her father glaring at her, tears welling up in her eyes.
Chen Ahfu quickly picked her up and coaxed her, "Sister Qian, don't cry. Come on, Auntie Chen will buy you some flowers to wear."
Two doors west of Hongyun Restaurant was the famous Shui Linglong Embroidery Workshop. Chen Ahfu had long wanted to go and see it, and was ready to buy some things to bring back. Wang had often praised Shui Linglong, saying that the embroidery there was the best in the entire Dashun Dynasty.
She took the little girl's hand and walked out of the restaurant with a few servants, heading west.
Shui Linglong is larger and more imposing than the Nishang Embroidery Workshop in Dingzhou Prefecture. It contains so many embroidery works that one is dazzled by the sight.
Chen Ahfu had no shortage of money now, and after buying four flowers and two purses for Yang Qian, he started shopping lavishly. From large screens, screens for the bed, and ornaments to small fans and handkerchiefs, all of them were Suzhou and Sichuan embroidery, and there were even two pairs of small double-sided embroidery. He also bought some beautiful small purses, small fan pendants, flowers, and more than a dozen pieces of fine brocade, etc.
Having money means being willful, and she spent more than 800 taels of silver at once.
The servants carried the things away, and Chen Ahfu followed behind with Yang Qian. When they were leaving the embroidery workshop, they saw a little boy of seven or eight years old walking into the embroidery workshop.
The little boy was fair and handsome, wearing blue coarse cloth. Chen Ahfu thought he looked familiar and took a closer look.
Behind his head, he heard someone from the embroidery workshop calling out to the little boy, "Brother Wang, what do you have to sell today?"
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