Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin smiled faintly: "Are you sure you want to know, Granny?"
“Um…” Granny Dai’s brow twitched, and she changed her mind: “…Please take care, come back if you have any questions.”
"good."
In fact, Shen Xiyin knew about Guo An because of their past lives.
When Shen Cang sent people to bring her back from the manor and prepared to marry her off to Qin Li, she had seen Guo An in the manor. At that time, she found it strange that her grandmother, who was such a profit-driven person, would support a distant cousin who was not even related to her for three years!
Therefore, after learning that Madam Shen might be having an affair, her first suspect was Guo An!
I was surprised that my guess was right every time.
After leaving Granny Dai's residence, Shen Qiyin headed towards Guangrentang and unexpectedly ran into Si Tunan on the way.
He was wearing well-fitting clothes, not made of expensive materials, but clean and tidy.
Her hair was now neatly combed, no longer resembling its previous filthy state.
He also saw Shen Qiyin and ran over to her.
Shen Qiyin found it strange: "Shouldn't you be studying at Master Wu's house?"
"The teacher teaches at the academy during the day, so he only has time to teach me in the morning and evening. After I finish the homework assigned by the teacher in the morning, I go out to run errands for people after lunch to keep myself healthy and earn a little money."
He now lives and eats at the teacher's house, and even his clothes and shoes are bought for him by the teacher, so he wants to earn some money to supplement his family's income.
Shen Qiyin nodded thoughtfully, then asked, "How was the harvest?"
“…Not very good.” Stunan’s face fell, and his tone was downward: “Sometimes I’m lucky and I can earn a few copper coins, sometimes I can’t earn a single penny.”
"Would you like to come and help out at the clinic?"
The weather has suddenly turned cold recently, and many people are sick. Sometimes her senior brother has to go up the mountain to collect herbs, and she has to run between Qiying Pavilion and the Marquis's residence. Occasionally, when neither of them is available, her junior brother is treating patients, and Chunsheng is responsible for preparing the medicine by himself. Occasionally, he also has to brew the medicine, so he is inevitably too busy.
If someone helps, it will be better.
"Five coins per day, settled on the same day."
Five coins?!
"Not enough?"
"No, I just didn't expect you to be so generous this time!"
"..." That was quite a vulgar insult.
Sturnan covered her mouth and giggled, saying, "Why are you being so kind to help me?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed and said calmly, "I said the day we first met that I only do business with people and never show kindness to anyone."
What you perceive as a kind act of help may actually be part of my ulterior motives.
Stunnan was stunned.
Shen Xiyin's words were so calm they were almost cold. She said, "Five coins a day, working only half a day, adds up to one hundred and fifty coins a month. It's not much, but we don't lack people to do it."
"But I chose a little kid like you, don't you want to think about why?"
Why?
"Because you are Master Wu's student, there will only be benefits for me to befriend you, and no harm."
Sturnan's young mind suffered a huge blow.
He thought she was helping him because she considered him a friend.
He was still not giving up, and exclaimed excitedly, "Then, you could have just not told me!"
"Wouldn't that be lying? I don't like to lie," said Miss Shen, who was always full of lies.
"..."
It's better to lie to him.
Having agreed on a time with Shen Qiyin to go to work at the clinic the next day, Si Tunan left, clutching his shattered little heart.
Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Qiyin waited until after the honeysuckle was ripe, and then they went back to the Shen family together.
When she returned to Haitang Courtyard, she saw from afar that there seemed to be two large "囍" (double happiness) characters pasted on the gate of Shen Yaozu's courtyard, and two red ribbons tied to the door knocker.
Her steps gradually came to a stop, and Shen Qiyin's brows furrowed slightly.
Just then, Xianglan happened to be passing by nearby, so she called out to her and asked, "Second Brother, what brings you joy?"
"Um..." Xianglan lowered her head deeply, hesitating to speak, "...It's...it's the old lady, she wants to...to..."
At this point, she quickly glanced up at Ren Dong before continuing with difficulty, "Miss Ren Dong should be assigned to the Second Young Master as a... as a concubine."
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