I reached out and touched Xie Yuancheng's face: "You have too much on your shoulders. I won't argue with you anymore, and I'll do your laundry and cook for you."
"The first part is fine, but you should take back what you said earlier. It would be better if I did your laundry and cooked for you. If you take over, the kitchen will definitely be razed to the ground."
"Hmph, don't look down on me. I'll go back and learn from the cooks and make you my Ying'er desserts."
I meant to make him something to eat. Xie Yuancheng's little eyes almost made me go astray. I quickly got up and pinched his cheek. His fair and tender little face, I don't know if the sun and sandstorms over the years have been kind to him, it feels so good.
As soon as we arrived at the door, Li Ruowei was standing outside, smiling at us.
"Sister!" Xie Yuancheng greeted her as if she were an adult, his voice coming out in a coquettish tone.
Li Ruowei instructed the two nannies to carry Su Ling and Xi Zhi back, and then have the carriage take them away: "I already said it, didn't you realize it yourselves? Are you upset again?"
"Yes, thanks to you, a wild child suddenly appeared out of nowhere and scared my Ying'er."
I patted Xie Yuancheng's hand: "Sister, I won't go out of the manor next time."
“That won’t do. You are the wife of a marquis. Sometimes you still need to go out of the manor to take a look around so that we can find out which families are trying to do bad things and replace them.”
"Sister~" I was getting annoyed: "I'd better not go out. I should stay home."
"That's right, Ying'er has really sacrificed too much for me. We need to go in now."
Xie Yuancheng proudly put his arm around me and we walked away. Li Ruowei just smiled and remained at the door. When I looked back again, she had already mounted her horse and ridden away.
"That's strange, does my sister know kung fu?" I always suspected that Li Ruowei was a hermit master, and her insights were something I could never keep up with in my entire life.
"If she knew kung fu, she would have chopped that idiot prince into a pulp long ago."
"But I think she's amazing; she always comes to the rescue at crucial moments."
"Of course my sister is amazing. She is the eldest daughter of our Li family. Whether she was a child or an adult, she has always been good at setting traps. Without her as my strategist, I might not have been able to accomplish so much."
"Your sister became your strategist? When did that happen?"
“She always has. She just learned some new things after leaving the palace. Doesn’t she look dashing and spirited?”
I nodded quickly, "Yes, I really want to be like that too!"
I was just saying it casually, but Xie Yuancheng started glaring and bristling: "Ying'er, you can't be like your sister. You have to be my little woman, so I can see you anytime, anywhere. Of course, that includes some other things too."
I smacked him on the head: "You talk too much! I'm always with you, except when you're busy with your work. I'm your little follower, no, I should be your shadow. Wherever you go, I go."
"Yes~" Xie Yuancheng picked me up and said, "Let's go. My sister won't be back tonight. Let's go for a walk around the manor and take good care of the little ones when they wake up."
"Oh dear, you always do this, catching me completely off guard."
"I want Ying'er to be caught off guard. If you already know, how can I give you a surprise?"
When Xie Yuancheng is not in a bad mood, he reacts like a little kid. I hug his neck, afraid that he might drop me on the ground if he gets excited. Although the chances of this happening are 200%, he is thin, so I have to protect him.
"Ying'er, let's go to the capital in two months, visit Yu'er, and then come back, just in time for the New Year~"
"Are you sure you want to go? I remember the old emperor would send princes and imperial relatives to the palace for the New Year. Are you sure you don't need to go?"
"If I go, he'll be really uneasy. He's been able to sit on the throne for so long, and he still has to fight against his sons and some brothers. If he sees me, his eyes will probably turn into frog eyes."
"That's good. It would be great if Yu'er could come to Linyang. He hasn't seen his younger siblings in a long time."
“There will be opportunities. Right now, our background and wealth are still controlled by the old emperor. Yu’er is giving him peace of mind on my behalf. Although we have no intention of fighting, he will still be uneasy.”
I clung to him tightly. Luckily, I knew the shopkeeper; otherwise, we would have been in so many dangerous situations and would have been dead long ago. I don't know where my precious children would be suffering then.
Li Ruowei really didn't come back that night. Xie Yuancheng, that scheming fellow, was hiding something from me. When Yan'er saw that her mother wasn't there, she circled around me for a long time, and Su Ling even came to chase her away.
"The three of you are all family, so you must help each other and not hate each other, understand?"
I pulled the three little ones closer. They're so young and already know how to snatch things; what will they be like in the future? The three little ones nodded, quite seriously, but when I told them to go play, they started yelling again.
Taking care of children is physically demanding, and you also need to be quick-witted. By the time they all fall asleep, I'm already feeling sleepy.
Xie Yuancheng helped me back, and as soon as I put down my pillow, I wanted to sleep. In the end, I struggled to take a bath before going back inside. The hot spring water is changed every now and then, and Xie Yuancheng always comes to change the water himself, because he still doesn't trust the people in the manor.
With so many people around, even those who have followed for decades might turn against them; his worries are perfectly normal. The teacher led Lingwu and the others away; apart from Mei Nongying, it seemed there were no other people from Piaomiao Residence in the city.
"Yuancheng~ You still haven't told me, are you and your brother plotting something?"
I held onto his hand tightly. When Xie Yuancheng tried to come closer, I stepped back. I was always one step ahead of him whenever he moved.
"Ying'er~ You dislike me~" Xie Yuancheng started to play dumb, but I wasn't fooled.
"Never mind, I'll find out even if you don't tell me. I'll study hard from now on."
"And then what?" Xie Yuancheng glared at me fiercely, grabbing me with both hands and pulling me back without any hesitation. "Ying'er~ you just love to be naughty~"
"Move aside, I'm free. You don't assign me anything to do, so of course I'll start with the people around me."
"Okay, I'll tell you everything~" Xie Yuancheng came closer. I thought he was going to talk, but he actually assigned me tasks: "We'll do a seven-day cycle. On the first day, you'll learn needlework. On the second day, you'll accompany me to the garden. On the third day, you'll learn to make pastries. On the fourth day, you'll play with the children. On the fifth day, you'll follow me wherever I go without complaining. As for the last two days, I'll arrange them according to my mood."
"You're so annoying! I hate female factory workers the most, you know that."
“I don’t know who embroidered this for me. Although the stitches are very clumsy, I treasure it very much. It’s been several years, and Ying’er doesn’t plan to get me a new one.”
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
