Chapter 5: Bedtime Talk
"Well, didn't we bring a lot of clothes back home from Zhou's house?" Lu Qiniang said stiffly.
"Mom, you don't want to make me new clothes, do you?" Erya exploded like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
"I'm out of money now!" Lu Qiniang tried not to feel guilty.
"Where's the money?"
"Look, he's sitting on the kang." Lu Qiniang pointed at Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan suddenly felt his face burning.
"No, you really only have this much silver left? You didn't hide it?" Erya was shocked and her eyes were hurt.
She was looking forward to having a new set of clothes for the Chinese New Year this year.
For her, she can eat coarse food at home, but she must look stylish and decent when she goes out.
"It's really gone..." Lu Qiniang comforted her, "But I promise you, I will make it up to you as soon as I make money. I have all the strength in me, I can make money no matter what, dear——"
Erya's eyes turned red instantly. She put down her chopsticks, stood up and went back to her room without looking back.
A moment later, the sound of her wailing was heard.
Lu Qiniang felt sad when she heard this, but she couldn't produce any money, so she could only sigh.
Daya said, "Mom, I'm going to go see my second sister."
Lu Qiniang held her back and said, "Don't go. You cried on purpose for us to hear. You won't get any good results if you go."
After he finished speaking, the crying in the room seemed to become quieter.
"Alright, stop arguing." Lu Qiniang pretended to be weak, "Why do I feel so dizzy?"
"mother!"
The three daughters had no time to quarrel, even Erya came back and helped her.
"Mom, are you tired today?" Daya asked.
"I think it's because of my second sister that he got angry." San Ya stuck out her tongue.
Arya glared at her fiercely.
"You're talking nonsense. Mother, how are you? Tomorrow I'll go get Dr. Hu to take another look at you."
"It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy." Lu Qin's mother breathed a sigh of relief and took the opportunity to say to Erya, "Don't worry, I will keep my promise to you. Even if I can't save enough before the New Year, I will definitely make it up to you after the New Year."
Erya said gloomily, "You really have no money left? Did you buy that person?"
"Um."
"You are so stupid."
"Mother is not stupid, how could she have us?" San Ya said, "You've made Mother so angry again. Second sister is not obedient, and second sister is the worst."
"Zhang Sanya, you want to fight, don't you?"
"I'm not afraid of you! Dad, look, I bite her!"
Lu Qiniang: Help!
Xiao Yan sat on the kang, watching the war between the four women, with a confused look in his eyes.
He had never experienced such a scene before.
Isn’t it normal for a mother to be loving and a daughter to be filial, and for sisters to go on blind dates?
"Alright, stop arguing." Daya said, "Let Mom have a good rest. Mom, you..."
She looked at the big kang, which was where Lu Qiniang usually rested, and now someone else had taken over her place.
Her eyes fell on Xiao Yan, but she quickly looked away.
"Let me sleep with Daya." Lu Qiniang said.
"Mom, you snore and I can't sleep." San Ya said, "Don't you and Dad live in the same room?"
Other people's parents all have to sleep together.
Lu Qiniang still insisted on sleeping with Daya.
As a result, San Ya started crying.
"Mom, I knew you found a fake father to deceive me. Is my father dead? I am indeed a fatherless bastard, wuwuwu..."
There were many vicious rumors outside, which cast a shadow on her young mind.
"What bastard? Who said that?" Erya raised her eyebrows. "Tell me who said that, or I'll go and smash their family's pot!"
Lu Qiniang: "...Alright, alright, we'll live together. Eat quickly and go to bed early after dinner to avoid wasting lamp oil."
She is really tired today.
Daya and Erya cleaned up the dishes and went back to their respective places.
San Ya was reluctant to leave. She leaned against the kang with her chin in her hand, looking at Xiao Yan lying on the kang, muttering to herself, "I have a father, I have a father."
Lu Qiniang was troubled by her and drove her away.
The noise next door soon died down, and the three daughters must have gone to bed.
Lu Qiniang sat on the kang and talked to Xiao Yan.
"... You have one quilt, I have one quilt. The kang is so big, it's enough for two more people to lie in the middle."
Xiao Yan didn't say anything.
He is living under someone else's roof, so what right does he have to object?
Lu Qiniang thought he minded and couldn't help scolding him, "How hypocritical."
She rushed out and quickly dragged in the wooden basin and filled it with warm water.
Xiao Yan was stunned—she, she wanted to take a shower in front of him?
Xiao Yan turned his head to look at the window, his ears red, not knowing whether he was angry or embarrassed.
"Behave yourself! Why are you thrashing around? Ah Huang, be obedient! I'll wash you clean and get you to sleep on the kang."
Xiao Yan turned around in surprise and saw Lu Qiniang using almost the same method to bathe him. She pressed the little yellow dog into the basin, gave it a bath, wiped its fur, and threw it on the kang.
Xiao Yan: It turns out that there is no difference between her washing him and washing a dog.
Lu Qiniang placed Ah Huang between the two of them and said, "You can rest assured now."
Xiao Yan felt that he needed to explain, "I wasn't worried just now."
"Haha." Lu Qiniang sneered, "You guys say one thing and do another."
"We? Me and who?"
Lu Qiniang didn't answer. She took off her outer clothes and got directly into the quilt.
"Go to sleep. The kids are throwing tantrums today, so just bear with it. I'll go sleep with Daya later."
"Um."
Lu Qiniang thought about how to make money for a long time, but still felt that it was too difficult to have a good New Year and buy new clothes for Erya.
She wanted to dream of picking up money.
So in the darkness, she asked Xiao Yan: "Are you asleep?"
"No."
The past was vivid, rolling in his mind. Fate made him a child of destiny, but also made him fall into the abyss.
Looking back on the past twenty years, it seems like a dream.
Now he was living in this humble house, a widow's nominal husband, with three half-grown daughters...
"I remember you come from a wealthy family," Lu Qiniang asked.
"Marquis Qingping's Mansion." When Xiao Yan mentioned this, his heart felt like it was being pricked by a needle.
I thought it wouldn't hurt anymore, but unexpectedly, it still didn't work.
"I am a bastard, the second son in the family." Xiao Yan revealed his background without waiting for her to ask - he felt that Lu Qiniang had spent all the family's wealth to redeem him, so he should tell the truth.
"My biological mother is the current emperor's seventh daughter, Princess Jiahe, and my mother is a maidservant beside the princess."
"Your father is a marquis, and your stepmother is a princess. They must be miserable too, considering the way you are now." Lu Qin's mother felt sympathetic.
Very miserable?
"No." Xiao Yan said, "They are all fine."
"Ah?" Lu Qiniang was surprised. "They are all fine, but you are like this? You, did you burn the ancestral grave or sleep with me?"
Xiao Yan was choked by her vulgarity and was speechless. After a while, he said, "I didn't do those things. I was victimized and didn't want to implicate my family. Therefore, I have voluntarily severed ties with the Marquis' Mansion."
"If we cut off ties, will they really leave you alone?" Lu Qiniang said, "I'm a harsh person. If you really haven't done anything wrong, then they've gone too far."
"There are some things you don't understand." Xiao Yan said.
"You look down on me. I've also lived in a wealthy family! Although it's not your mansion, I guess they are all of the same character."
"Then why did you come back?"
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