Chapter 53 If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring breeze.
When Zhou returned.
It was almost midnight.
Listen to the peony vividly recounting the events of the day.
"The Liu family mother and son are utterly despicable!"
Zhou slammed her hand on the table. "How dare they do such a thing!"
"Why not just kill her? Then we can just find some excuse."
“Mother, there’s no rush,” Jiang Wan Ning said. “Taking her life is easy, but I still have a use for her.”
It would be easy to kill Lady Liu, but if she were dead, and the person behind her were to find someone else to deal with the Marquis's mansion, wouldn't I be blind?
There were no clues whatsoever.
Moreover, we already know who Jiang Wanru's biological father is, so killing all the servants in the Marquis's mansion would be inappropriate.
If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they will grow back in the spring.
Today, she tortured Liu Shi to see how Steward Wang would react.
Butler Wang's actions have ruled out the possibility that she is Jiang Wanru's biological father.
Right now, we can only pin our hopes on Granny Zhang.
In his past life, before he died, he vaguely heard Jiang Wanru talking about her brother and how he would become a marquis.
She guessed that this Concubine Liu must have had another child before entering the Marquis's mansion.
After his parents and he died, they adopted the child and made him his father's son.
He inherited the title of Marquis.
Aunt Liu was cautious; she had been watching for so long but hadn't managed to find any clues.
She needs to pay off the loan sharks right now, so she has to take action.
Over the years, Aunt Liu has embezzled 30,000 taels of silver from the books, but the rewards her father gives her have decreased significantly.
It must have been given to his son outside for his own use.
Those rewards were no less than thirty thousand taels.
"Mother, there is one more thing."
"You know the Grand Princess?"
Mrs. Zhou knew her daughter would ask this question, so she didn't hesitate.
He stated directly, "We were best friends when we were young."
"Friends?" Jiang Wan Ning could hardly believe what she was hearing.
The Grand Princess's behavior today is more like that of enemies meeting.
Zhou knew what Jiang Wan Ning was thinking and sighed, "When we were young, the two of us were just like you and Zhi Zhi."
"I am good at writing, and she is good at martial arts. Although our personalities are different, we both like to help those in need."
"I can't stand seeing women in this world fighting and fighting over the same man."
"But later, because of a vow made by your father, I was reduced to staying indoors all the time..."
"She also became aggressive due to her incompatibility with her husband."
After Zhou finished speaking, he gave a wry smile.
"I see," Jiang Wan Ning said. "But why is there also..."
Zhou shook her head. "I didn't know about this either. We kept in touch after we got married."
"But suddenly all contact ceased."
"Perhaps it's because we don't see each other much since I don't leave the mansion. After all, many relationships need to be maintained."
Jiang Wan Ning did not speak.
However, she did not agree with what her mother said. If that were really the reason, she and Zhizhi could never get back together.
True friends are those with whom you haven't seen each other for many years, yet when you meet again, you don't feel like strangers, as if you hadn't seen each other just yesterday.
Could it be that the person Jiang Wanru mentioned her mother offended in her previous life was the Grand Princess?
But her mother's appearance didn't seem to match; was it because she didn't know, or...?
Jiang Wan Ning's mind was racing, so focused that she didn't hear Zhou Shi calling her several times.
After instructing Shaoyao to take good care of Jiang Wanning, Zhou returned to her own courtyard.
The next morning.
Jiang Wan Ning got up early and arrived at the Langya Prince's Mansion.
Pei Yanchuan paced back and forth by the window, hearing footsteps approaching.
He hurriedly returned to his chair, sat down, and struck what he thought was a cool pose with his book in hand.
"Your Highness?"
Mo Qing stretched his neck over the table and leaned close to Pei Yanchuan, "You're holding the book upside down."
"Cough cough..."
Pei Yanchuan quickly turned the book around and continued in the same position as before.
After a while.
Where are they?
"Who?" Mo Qing looked around. "The Princess Consort?"
"She went to find Yu Hai."
He pointed in the direction of Yu Hai's courtyard.
Pei Yanchuan: "..."
"So what brings you here?"
"Oh." Mo Qing slapped his forehead. "I almost forgot."
"The princess instructed that if the prince is busy, he need not go."
Pei Yanchuan felt a pang of jealousy and said with a dark face, "Get out."
"oh."
Mo Qing scratched his head, as if he had forgotten something he wanted to say.
After Mo Qing left, Pei Yanchuan immediately got up and walked towards Yu Hai's courtyard.
After a while,
"Your Highness?"
Pei Yanchuan paused for a moment, then turned around as if nothing had happened.
"What is Your Highness doing here? Why don't you go inside?"
Jiang Wan Ning, holding two rabbits, blinked her eyes and looked at Pei Yan Chuan with a puzzled expression.
Pei Yanchuan subconsciously touched his nose. "Um, I was just passing by."
"Find Mo Bai."
"Mo Qing just said it's coming this way. I was afraid it might hurt you, so I came to check on it."
Jiang Wan Ning nodded. "I just went to the kitchen and borrowed two rabbits."
"I didn't see him when I came out; he must have just gone in."
"Your Highness, Your Highness." Mo Qing jogged after him, "I forgot to tell you."
"You instructed me this morning to put Mo Bai in the cage, and I have done so."
For the first time in his life, Pei Yanchuan awkwardly dug his toes into the ground, gritting his back teeth, "...Did I give any such orders?"
"Yes, it was when the servants reported that the Princess Consort was coming that you gave the order."
Mo Qing tried her best to help her master recall.
"Then it must be that I've misremembered."
After Pei Yanchuan finished speaking, he turned and left.
Jiang Wan Ning smiled slightly as she watched Pei Yan Chuan's unsteady steps.
Under Yu Hai's guidance, Jiang Wan Ning practiced surgical suturing for a while, and the two also discussed the shop's decoration.
"This idea of having a small courtyard is good, but it's only suitable for spring and autumn. It's a bit too hot in summer and winter."
Yu Hai nodded, "Actually, summer evenings are the best, with the evening breeze, and then we can have some barbecue."
Yu Hai explained how to eat barbecue again.
"The most important point is that it's too hot to eat hot pot during the day in summer, so you need to cool down."
“Iced drinks alone are not enough. I will make fans to blow cold air, but that requires a lot of ice.”
"This cost... is quite high."
There is no ice-making technology now, but there are ice merchants.
They would go to the river to dig up ice blocks in the winter, then store them in ice cellars to sell in the summer.
Some high-ranking officials had ice cellars in their residences, as did marquises.
However, ice is expensive, and if we use it freely, the cost might be too high...
Jiang Wan Ning also started to feel a headache coming on; she knew that nothing was ever easy.
"Miss, why don't we go ask the Prince?" Peony suggested.
"yes!"
"The prince has been to many places in the past years and has seen a lot. Perhaps he has a solution."
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