"I have already dealt with the situation with my father for you!"
Princess Hui'an said with a haughty look on her face.
"This princess is very capable! Much more capable than Jingning! So if you want to curry favor with me in the future, just curry favor with this princess!"
Princess Hui'an muttered, "But why didn't the Grand Empress Dowager punish you? Didn't the Zhaoyang Palace summon you to question you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the little maid beside her gently tugged at her sleeve: "Princess, Princess Lingxi is here."
Princess Hui'an sneered and said, "She's here, so she's here! Why, do you want me to welcome her?"
As she spoke, she glanced toward the other path.
Guo Lingxi came here in a sedan chair from the Zhaoyang Palace. She knew the eunuch who was accompanying her. His name was Xiao Yunzi, and he was said to be a confidant of the Empress Dowager.
Just at this moment, Guo Lingxi lifted the curtain on the side and looked towards Princess Hui'an and Su Xiaoxiao.
Su Xiaoxiao was still wearing the dirty clothes, as if she didn't care about her image at all, and her expression was as calm as ever.
Princess Hui'an rolled her eyes in annoyance: "It's great to have the support of the Grand Empress Dowager! Humph!"
Guo Lingxi looked at Su Xiaoxiao deeply, lowered the curtain, touched his arm that was swollen from the whip, his eyes were cold.
After saying goodbye to Princess Hui'an, Su Xiaoxiao also left the palace.
Su Mo's carriage had been waiting for a long time. When the coachman saw her coming out, he hurriedly took a footstool and opened the curtain for her.
When Su Xiaoxiao sat on the car, she found that the person who came to pick her up was not Su Mo.
"Why are you here?" Su Xiaoxiao asked curiously and sat down opposite him.
Su Li said depressedly: "Do you think I want to come? It's my eldest brother who forced me to come!"
Su Xiaoxiao folded her sleeves and said, "I asked you to come here... to be bullied by me?"
Su Li's face darkened: "Hey! How can you talk like that! If you hadn't been so mean to me yesterday, would Big Brother have punished me? I'll come pick you up! Give me back the banknotes! I saved up so much with great difficulty, and Big Brother plundered them all and gave them to you!"
Su Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows: "No."
Su Li was so angry that her teeth were itching.
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the big bump on his forehead and asked, "Oh, you got beaten?"
Su Li gritted her teeth: "How dare you say that!"
Su Xiaoxiao folded her arms and leaned comfortably on the pillow: "It's related to me? Su Mo beat you up? That's not right. After he beat you up yesterday, weren't you injured here?"
Su Li clenched his fist and roared: "It's your son!"
Su Xiaoxiao was confused: "My son beat you? You can't even beat three kids?"
You are plotting against me, and you are discriminating against me! Su Li has been irritating others for the past seventeen years, and the whole family has been in turmoil because of him. This is the first time he has fallen into the hands of a little girl, and he is so angry that his lungs hurt.
Su Li was furious and said, "Your son picked my mother's peonies! My mother was so excited yesterday that she didn't notice it. When she woke up this morning, she saw that all the peonies were gone and she insisted that I picked them! When I said it was your son who picked them, she scolded me for wrongly accusing your son! She chased me and beat me up for two blocks!"
Ah! I’m so angry! “Ha!”
Su Xiaoxiao burst out laughing.
Guo Lingxi and Su Xiaoxiao came out at about the same time, and her carriage was next to the Su family's carriage.
Hearing Su Xiaoxiao's laughter, Guo Lingxi and the maid's faces looked unhappy.
The maid said disdainfully: "I don't know what you are laughing at! People from the countryside just don't know the rules. The daughter of a wealthy family in the capital is so unrestrained as her!"
Su Li the evil dragon roared: "Don't laugh! Shut up!"
Su Xiaoxiao smiled all the way.
After Su Li sent the person to Lihua Lane, he decisively went to the Imperial College.
This sister is not cute, he is going to cause trouble for Su Ergou!
Everyone in the family was out, only Zhongshan was there.
Zhong Shan handed Su Xiaoxiao two letters.
Su Xiaoxiao took it and looked at it, her lips slightly curved as she said, "It's a reply from Master Huijue and Aunt Fu."
In the letter, Master Huijue said that she and Aunt Fu were doing well. The roses in the nunnery had bloomed, and the wild fruits on the back hill were heavy with fruit. The young nuns often sneaked out to pick the fruits, but unfortunately none of them were as big as the ones picked by Su Ergou.
"So the Master knows everything?"
The little nuns thought that no one had noticed that they were looking for Su Ergou to pick fruits.
Master Huijue asked about Su Xiaoxiao's situation in the capital, asked her not to neglect her chess skills, and finally, asked her to take good care of Zhongshan.
Su Xiaoxiao went to the room to write a reply to Master Huijue, intending to send it together with Doctor Fu's reply to Madam Fu.
She was planning to go to the clinic and bring the letter to Doctor Fu, when someone came to the door.
"Third sister-in-law? Fifth sister-in-law?"
The people who came were Chen and Jiang.
Su Xiaoxiao looked behind them and said, "Are you two the only ones here?"
Jiang smiled brightly: "Yes, just the two of us! Your third sister-in-law and I came to see you!"
Chen nodded: "Well, I'm not here to eat meat."
Jiang: “…”
Su Xiaoxiao: “…”
Su Xiaoxiao went to the kitchen and stewed a pot of braised pork with asparagus. It was soft and sticky, oily and salty, and paired with the crispy and smooth asparagus, it was so delicious that you wanted to swallow your tongue.
Chen drank three bowls of rice in one breath.
Jiang was much more reserved and only drank two and a half bowls.
Su Xiaoxiao picked up some kimchi she had made to help them relieve their greasiness.
"Is this a radish?" Jiang took a bite.
It tastes sour, sweet, and a little spicy, but not the spicy kind we usually eat. It has a very unique taste.
"There are also green peppers and beans." Su Xiaoxiao picked some of each for the two of them.
I just ate so much meat. It felt great while I was eating it, but I did feel a little greasy after finishing it. However, after taking a few bites of kimchi, I felt refreshed.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't entertain the two of them for nothing.
She never does business at a loss.
"Third sister-in-law, fifth sister-in-law, can I ask you something?"
"You say." Jiang said.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Among the women of the Wei family, the only one I haven't seen is Wei Ting's mother. What kind of person is she?"
"You want to ask about your mother-in-law?" Jiang suppressed her craving and put down her chopsticks.
"Is it inconvenient to tell me?" Su Xiaoxiao sighed, "Forget it, I won't embarrass you two sisters-in-law. I originally steamed some bacon and wanted you two sisters-in-law to take it back..."
Jiang wiped her saliva and said, "There's nothing to hide! Anyway, you're getting married soon, and we'll be a family from now on, right, Third Sister-in-law?"
Chen nodded blankly: "Yes, we are a family."
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Fifth sister-in-law, tell me quickly, what kind of person is mother?"
It was not unusual for a daughter-in-law to ask about her future mother-in-law so that she could please her after marriage, and Jiang did not suspect anything.
She told her about some of Mrs. Wei's habits, such as living alone in the west courtyard, not interacting with people in the mansion, and only visiting her during the holidays.
"Has Mom always been like this?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.
Jiang really didn't want to say that people who eat from others are soft-hearted and those who receive from others are obliged to return the favor. He could only blame himself for eating too much.
Jiang waved her hands and said, "Forget it, it's okay to tell you. I also heard from my second sister-in-law and others later that mother was not like this before. She and father used to be equals."
Thanks to the cute little ones for contributing the title (end of this chapter)