Chapter 412 Wei Congratulations

Jiang Yan thought of Song Mo's expression when he hit Li Liang that day, and knew that what Dou Zhao said was true. He was so scared that his face turned pale. Not to mention in front of Song Mo, even in front of Dou Zhao, he didn't dare to mention Li Liang again.

Dou Zhao couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

She had been with Jiang Yan for a few days and knew that this child was gentle and sensitive. Jiang Yan's not mentioning Li Liang did not mean that Jiang Yan had really forgotten about Li Liang. On the contrary, the more he hid it, the easier it would be for her to think wrongly.

Dou Zhao and Song Mo discussed, "As for Li Tiao Niang's case, I think we should just say that she was misbehaving and that she hanged herself because of a personal relationship, so as not to drag her into the family's secrets. As for Li Liang, he has a wife and children, so we should just deal with him calmly. If any rumors get to Sister Yan, it will be bad. It would be better to send him away and keep him in prison until things calm down."

Song Mo got furious when he heard the speaker.

Dou Zhao's face darkened and he said, "You have to listen to me about this. Sister Yan is a living person, not an object that you can move around as you want! No matter how much you hate him, Sister Yan has lived with him for more than ten years. Without Li Liang's protection, I'm afraid she would have lost her life long ago. If Sister Yan doesn't care about Li Liang at all and turns her face against him mercilessly, I will stay away from such a heartless person even if she is your own sister. It is because she only cares about others and doesn't care about how others treat her that I dare to open my heart to her. Don't just see her faults, think about her good points too."

Song Mo went to the study angrily.

Dou Zhao ignored him and went to Bishuixuan after dinner.

Jiang Yan was sitting under the lamp doing needlework.

The dim light illuminated her slender figure, as beautiful as a still flower reflected in water.

Dou Zhao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Why is it that such a gentle and kind girl is less likely to be happy?

When Jiang Yan saw Dou Zhao coming, he hurriedly helped her sit on the kang.

Dou Zhao asked her, "What are you doing? There are five or six people at home doing needlework. If you have any urgent work, give it to them to finish. Don't hurt your eyes."

Jiang Yan smiled slightly, his brows and eyes were very gentle: "It's just that I was doing it casually when I had nothing to do. I won't do this again in the future."

Dou Zhao told her about Li Tiaoniang's case: "... the government office will close the case in the next few days. I will let Suxin accompany you to pay respects to the deceased, which will be a token of your filial piety. Li Liang's hand was injured by your brother, so he needs to be taken care of for at least a year or so. I'm afraid he won't be able to keep his job at the store. But your brother is planning to leave him on his farm in Tianjin for your sake. When he leaves, you should go and say farewell to him and have a few words with him. I don't know when we'll see each other again!"

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up.

She really wanted to thank Dou Zhao, but was afraid that he would be unhappy. The corners of her mouth twitched for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Dou Zhao smiled and patted her hands, but in his heart he was sighing. She really had no schemes at all. She believed everything he said. How could she be so different from Song Mo? Did Song Mo also take Jiang Yan's mind and eyes? No matter what people and things were, they could not be hidden in his eyes.

She talked to Jiang Yan for a while, and as it was getting late, she returned to the main room.

Song Mo was lying on the kang reading a book. When she saw Dou Zhao come in, she turned over and faced away from her.

Dou Zhao just thought it was funny and asked Wu Yi, "Did the prince have dinner?"

After Chen He and Su Lan got married, Dou Zhao bought a dowry house for Su Lan next to Su Xin's house, but Chen He felt that it was inconvenient and moved into the east group house, coming every day at yin and leaving at xu, becoming Song Mo's long-term attendant. Wu Yi took over his job and served Song Mo personally.

Wu Yi lowered his head and said, "The prince only ate a bowl of cold noodles and drank half a bowl of chicken soup."

Dou Zhao said, "I have made lotus leaf rice cake, rose lotus root and lotus seed soup for supper today. Ask someone to bring it up."

Ever since Dou Zhao became pregnant, Song Mo was afraid that she would be hungry at night, so he ordered that there must be someone in the kitchen for twelve hours.

Wuyi tiptoed out of the main room.

Dou Zhao sat alone on the kang and had a midnight snack.

The house is filled with the fragrance of lotus leaves.

Song Mo threw the book away angrily and glared at Dou Zhao.

Dou Zhao couldn't help but chuckle and fed him the remaining half spoonful of lotus seed soup: "Try it, it's made with fresh lotus seeds, so sweet and refreshing, different from the lotus seed soup you usually eat."

Song Mo looked at Dou Zhao's smiling face, and ate the lotus seed soup in one gulp, but he bit the spoon in his mouth.

Dou Zhao wanted to laugh but was afraid of embarrassing him, which would make him even more awkward, so he turned his head away, smiled silently for a moment, and told Ruo Zhu: "Why don't you serve a bowl for the prince as well."

Song Mo was always polite to others. Ruozhu and Wuyi were already stunned. After a moment's silence, Ruozhu finally responded and hurriedly left the banquet room.

"It's all your fault!" Song Mo complained to Dou Zhao with an ugly look on his face.

Dou Zhao said as if coaxing a child, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault."

Song Mo picked on the bones in the egg: "You don't have any sincerity at all."

Dou Zhao stared at him intently: "Then tell me, what does it mean to be sincere?"

Song Mo still felt uncomfortable and said, "You are just trying to please me anyway."

"No, no." Dou Zhao naturally denied it.

Fortunately, the lotus seed soup arrived and the topic came to an end.

But Song Mo had a new object of dislike: "This lotus seed soup is not tasty at all. Why is it salty?"

Just add a little salt, and the lotus seeds will taste more delicious.

"I like to eat!" Dou Zhao said with a smile.

"I don't like eating!" Song Mo said while eating.

"Then I'll have someone make you something sweet?"

"It doesn't taste good, why make something sweet!"

In short, it's awkward in every way.

After the two of them rested, he lay down next to Dou Zhao again.

The weather was so hot that even though there was ice in the corner, Dou Zhao was still sweating all over in a short while.

She moved inside.

Song Mo followed her again and held her in his arms, stubbornly hugging her waist which had long lost its curves.

"It's too hot!" Dou Zhao tried to struggle out of his arms.

"Why don't I feel hot?" Song Mo said dryly.

That's true.

Not only is Song Mo's skin as white as jade, but he hardly sweats even in the hottest weather. His body is always clean and dry, without any odor.

Dou Zhao was about to laugh at him, but he suddenly sat up, took out a fan from somewhere, and started fanning her.

"No need!" Dou Zhao felt sorry for him because he had to go to the palace to work early tomorrow morning, so he said, "Just ask someone to bring in two more pieces of ice."

"No." Song Mo said, "You are carrying a child. It's too cold in the room. Be careful not to catch a cold." He insisted on fanning her.

Dou Zhao really didn't have the energy to bother with him. He thought that he was tired and would naturally take a rest. He soon fell asleep in the breeze.

When she woke up the next morning, Song Mo had already gone to the palace, and the fan was thrown next to her pillow.

She asked Ruotong who was on duty: "When did the prince take a break?"

"Don't rest until it's almost dawn." If Song Mo doesn't rest, those on duty won't dare to rest either. Ruotong could hardly open her eyes when she said this.

Dou Zhao couldn't help but pick up the round fan and waved it gently twice.

During breakfast, Wuyi came in and reported, "The prince left a message saying that he would send Li Liang to the farm in Tianjin Wei tomorrow."

After Song Shize took refuge with Song Mo, he recommended to Song Mo several old servants who had once served the old duke and who later followed his son to the manor to be raised as honored servants because Madam Jiang was in charge of the household. Most of these people were in Tianjin Wei, and Li Liang could send them there, so it was safe.

Dou Zhao nodded and said, "When will the person recommended by Song Shize arrive?"

Those who once served the old Duke are all old and not suitable to work in Yizhitang anymore, but they have all seen the world and there are quite a few outstanding ones among their children. Song Mo decided to pick a few of them to serve him.

Wuyi smiled and said, "They will arrive in the next two days. Madam, would you like to take a look and pick out a few that you like?"

She should not interfere in these matters.

Mrs. Jiang stretched her hands too far in the beginning, making the servants of the Song family feel uneasy, which led to the isolation of the heir of the Duke of Ying's Mansion.

Once she gives birth to the child, she will naturally become part of the Song family.

Dou Zhao thought the vegetable buns made in the kitchen this morning were delicious, and told Wuyi: "Send some to Miss Yan." Then he drank a mouthful of the glutinous white porridge.

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If the morning at Yizhitang in the Yingguo Mansion in Kyoto was beautiful, then the He Mansion far away in Linqing was in chaos.

When He Qingyuan returned home, the beauty was nowhere to be seen.

Naturally, a servant told him what had happened.

He was stunned for a moment and hurried back to the inn.

As soon as the merchant saw Jiang Yan, he knew that she was a girl from a good family. When he heard Chen Jia say that she was kidnapped, he did not doubt it. He thought that kidnapping a girl from a good family would result in exile 300 miles away. He was so scared that he broke out in a sweat. He just wanted to get rid of this hot potato as soon as possible. How could he leave any traces?

He Qingyuan could not find out anything, so he had to go home to appease the tigress.

She said a lot of nice things and was careful all day, but the tigress refused to say who she sold the man to.

He Qingyuan's expression suddenly changed with a frown.

Mrs. He has five brothers from her mother's side, one of whom is a county official. They are not afraid of He Qingyuan.

The two men first had an argument, and then started fighting, grabbing each other's heads and faces.

The maids and servants in the house all fled away.

How could Grandma He bear to see her mother-in-law, who was on her side, suffer the consequences? She insisted that He Hao go and mediate.

He Hao was just angry that his father had taken his beauty. He thought that if his mother dragged his father back home, wouldn't the beauty be his again? Hearing that his mother had sold her, he felt extremely regretful. He was only listening intently to what the ugly Yinmao had to say. How could he dare to persuade them to stop fighting?

Grandma He was so angry that her chest ached, and she quickly sent someone to inform Mrs. He's parents.

Isn't it just keeping a woman outside?

All of his older uncles have lovers, why is it that this is not the case with him?

He Qingyuan was not going to accept this, so he rolled up his sleeves and started arguing with Mrs. He's family members.

He Hao looked at the situation and thought that if his father lost, he would be able to just watch even if he found the beauty. He hurriedly called his personal servant to find Wei Quan and asked him to come over to help.

Wei Quan regretted hanging out with that prostitute for two days.

He married his wife to have a cup of hot soup and hot water when he returned home. The prostitute grew up in a brothel, how could she be a person who knew how to live? He was thinking about whether he could get his wife back, and he was a little indifferent to the prostitute.

When he heard that something happened to the He family, he slipped on his shoes and ran out.

The girl leader learned how to serve men, so how could she not see what Wei Quan was thinking?

But if she missed Wei Quan, she would never find another man with such a good family background. She was trying her best to entangle Wei Quan, but when she saw Wei Quan running to He's house, how could she let him go alone? She also followed Wei Quan to He's house anxiously.