"Hey! This is obviously a good thing for you, right? Why do you say it in such a disdainful tone? As if the Second Master is a fool. Does he have to compete with you for the position of the Crown Prince to be a smart person?" Su Nuannuan was both angry and amused, and she stretched out her hand and knocked on the table in front of Duan Tingxuan.
"Yeah, I was confused." Duan Tingxuan couldn't help laughing. Suddenly, he heard Xiangyun asking for instructions to set the table. He stood up and pulled Su Nuannuan, saying, "Let's go eat first. Do you want to make stone cakes for me now?"
"I want to smash you into a stone cake and put you in the pan to fry." Su Nuannuan gritted her teeth: "I am still injured, and I am not going to cook for the next few days. If you feel disappointed, go to Grandma Yun and Grandma Lan. You must miss the duck soup after not having it for so many days, right?"
"Are you jealous?" Duan Tingxuan was not angry but happy, looking at Su Nuannuan with shining eyes.
"I'm just offering very pertinent suggestions. Every word comes from my heart. Look at my sincere eyes." Su Nuannuan pointed at her eyes, but the young marquis curled his lips and said, "Well, I can't see much sincerity in my eyes. My double eyelids are real, not made by tricks."
"Bah! You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth." Su Nuannuan spat. Even when the couple sat down at the dinner table, she still didn't give up. She squinted at Duan Tingxuan and said, "Logically, Grandma Yun and Grandma Lan were also frightened. I don't know why they are so upset now. You should go and comfort them."
"Let's talk about it tomorrow. No matter what the reason is, it's wrong for them to leave you on the mountain. But Jing'er is really beyond my expectation. She has always been cold and indifferent. I didn't expect that she could be so chivalrous this time."
"The most chivalrous ones are butchers, and chivalrous women have always been prostitutes." Su Nuannuan said calmly. Seeing the maids put out the porridge and dishes, she was about to get up to serve the porridge when she saw Duan Tingxuan standing up. He gently pushed her to sit down and said, "I'll do it, I'll do it." After saying that, he asked in confusion, "Isn't that what you say? Why do I remember that the most chivalrous ones are butchers, and the most unfaithful ones are scholars?"
"That's right, the most loyal ones are butchers, and the most unfaithful ones are scholars. Since ancient times, chivalrous women have emerged from the dust. Look. How rhyming." Su Nuannuan was unreasonable. She took the bowl of porridge from her husband and couldn't wait to taste it. But she saw her husband looking at her worriedly and whispered, "Nuannuan, is there really nothing going on between you and Jing'er?"
With a "puff", the porridge in Grandma's mouth spurted out. Seeing the whole table of food ruined, the foodie was so angry that he wanted to kill someone. He chased Duan Tingxuan and beat him hard: "If you dare to tell a joke while I'm eating again, believe it or not, I will kill you? I'm so angry, wasting food will be punished by God."
After the battle between husband and wife finally ended, Su Nuannuan was so tired that her hair was messy. Although she was sweating profusely, the young marquis looked like he had just had a massage, smiling and feeling so comfortable. Seeing this in the eyes of the grandmother, she was even more angry. She secretly thought that she must keep her composure in the future and not let the scumbag take advantage of her again. How the hell was this a fight? This was just teasing a cat, and she was the cat being teased.
The maids quickly set another table of food. This time, Duan Tingxuan didn't dare to laugh anymore. If the food was ruined again, he estimated that he would be barred from Chunfeng Garden within half a month.
"What have you been busy with today? Have you interrogated those criminals? Have they confessed who is behind this?" After dinner, the couple lay facing each other on the kang bed. Su Nuannuan sent all the maids out and then started asking about the business.
"That group of bandits is quite interesting." Duan Tingxuan sipped his tea slowly, with a playful smile in his eyes: "They actually said that they kidnapped you at the behest of Mingyu Tower, and they also swore that the owner of Mingyu Tower promised them that as long as the matter was accomplished, they could walk around the six southern provinces as they pleased from then on."
"Who is the owner of Mingyu Tower? Even the Governor-General of Liangjiang wouldn't dare to make such a boast, right?"
"That's a matter of the underworld. Mingyulou is a gang, and is considered the largest civilian force in the six southern provinces, except for the government. What's interesting about this matter is that the owner of Mingyulou would never have given such an order, but those bandits swore that it was Mingyulou who ordered them to do so."
"Why do you trust Mingyu Tower so much?" Su Nuannuan asked doubtfully: With Duan Tingxuan's temperament, he shouldn't be so arbitrary.
"You don't have to ask this. I have my reasons for saying this."
So Su Nuannuan understood that the so-called number one gang in the six southern provinces actually had a close relationship with the imperial court: "If that's the case, what are you going to do?"
"I'm asking someone to investigate the background of this gang of criminals. Nuannuan, do you know? You are really lucky. These criminals are not bad at martial arts. If you hadn't used the strategy of confusing the enemy again and again, and they were hoping to catch you alive, and they still have consciences, you would never have been able to escape."
"You mean? They are very powerful?" Su Nuannuan's eyes widened. Seeing Duan Tingxuan nod, she squinted and said, "What bad idea are you up to? I can already smell a conspiracy."
"Hahaha, Madam's nose is too sharp, isn't it? It's sharper than the wolfhound we raise in our mansion." Duan Tingxuan laughed loudly. The next moment, he was kicked in the leg and heard Su Nuannuan angrily say, "How dare you compare me to a dog?"
"Don't you always call me a cat? You point at Zhaocai and say I'm a greedy cat all day long." The young marquis finally got his revenge, and he was in a good mood. He laughed wickedly, "Aren't these bandits very confident in their own kung fu? And they are always looking forward to making a name for themselves. So I sent people to check their background. If they really haven't harmed innocent people as they said, I will spare their lives for now and send them to the northern border to serve as a death squad in the vanguard army. Anyway, they are sentenced to death. If they can survive the battlefield, it will be considered as atonement; if they die, it will be considered as a legal punishment. At least the name of dying in battle is much better than being executed."
"well……"
Su Nuannuan didn't know what to say, but Duan Tingxuan said happily: "Nuannuan, do you think my decision is good? I was afraid that you would be angry and disagree. Since you also think..."
"What a black heart." Su Nuannuan interrupted Duan Tingxuan and covered her heart with one hand. Seeing her husband's petrified expression, she quickly waved her hand: "It's okay, I know that you all have dirty hearts in the court."
Duan Tingxuan's shoulders slumped like an eggplant hit by frost, and he said dejectedly, "Then what do you want to do? You don't want to let them go, do you?"
"Do I look like a foolish, kindhearted saint?" Su Nuannuan shrugged. "I haven't finished what I was saying just now. Although this idea shows your dark and dirty heart, I really like it. Duan Tingxuan, you are a genius. No wonder you can stand firm in the court and be so successful. You can get along well with the emperor and the crown prince. You have a superb IQ, and you can come up with a malicious idea in the blink of an eye. You also have an extraordinary thick skin and a black heart. If you don't laugh at the court, who can laugh at it..."
"Wait, wait." Duan Tingxuan reached out to stop his wife's unstoppable comments on him: "Why do these words sound so wrong to me? Let me ask first, are you praising me or belittling me?"
"Of course I'm praising you. Why would I go to so much trouble to belittle you?" Su Nuannuan spoke righteously, and waved her fist to show that her "praise" came from the bottom of her heart.
Duan Tingxuan: ... "Okay, as long as it's a compliment, go on."
Su Nuannuan: ...
The first snow of winter fell heavily. The next morning, when I opened the window, the cold air hit me in the face. The whole world seemed to be inlaid with a layer of snow-white glass. There was no one in the empty yard, which made it seem even more quiet and remote.
Su Nuannuan rubbed her face, and then she heard the door curtain rustling, followed by Honglian's voice: "Grandma, you opened the window again, and the warmth in the room is almost gone."
"The fire basin has been burning all night, I'm almost restless from the heat, and you're not allowed to open the window to let in some fresh air?" Although she said this, she couldn't resist the cold, and quickly closed the window again, muttering, "It's so hot in this room that I can't calm down. I might as well make some ice cream today. Your grandfather just whipped several kilograms of cream the day before yesterday, didn't he?"
"Eating ice cream in such a cold weather? What do you think, grandma?" Honglian was both angry and amused, but she heard Su Nuannuan confidently say, "It's not just me who wants to eat it. Last night when we were having dinner, your grandfather also said that it was too hot in the government office, so he asked me to make some ice cream for him to eat."
Honglian pursed her lips and said, "Master, you don't know how to appreciate your good fortune. There are so many government offices in the capital, how many can be as luxurious as the Zhanshi Mansion? The best silver wire charcoal pipes are enough to burn."
Su Nuannuan smiled and said, "It can't be helped. The emperor loves the prince so much. I heard that the prince has lost more than 20 pounds. The emperor is very happy. He has promoted two lecturers in the East Palace within a month. Alas! I don't know when your master will be promoted."
Honglian smiled and said, "What does it matter whether my official position is promoted or not? Who dares to look down on him? Maybe the emperor wants to keep his official position and give me a promotion after the prince ascends the throne. Didn't grandma say that? This is called showing favor."
"You remember this kind of words so well, why don't you remember my other words so clearly?" Su Nuannuan couldn't help laughing: "Forget it, what does it have to do with me whether he gets promoted or not? Anyway, as long as he doesn't need my money, that's all."
"Is it enough to just have enough money? In fact, the most important thing is that Grandpa has never been short of food for Grandma, right?" Honglian chuckled, then ran away. Sure enough, she heard Su Nuannuan angrily behind her, "Just wait, I'm telling you, last night your grandfather told me that you are old enough and it's time for you to marry someone. I asked him to find a good one for you, but it turns out that I worried for nothing. Humph! Wait until I take care of your business again."
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