Hearing this, Tang Chen quickly stopped what he was doing and swallowed the food in his mouth: "You mean, you are willing to support me for a while for free?"
Wang Yanzhou waved his folding fan and added, "It's not in vain. If you see any shortage of manpower in the courtyard, go and help there."
Wang Yanzhou's suggestion coincided with Tang Chen's thoughts. Although she was lazy, she was also ambitious. She couldn't really eat and drink for free at someone else's house. "That's exactly what I was thinking. And just now, I suddenly thought of a position that would be very suitable for me."
Before Tang Chen could tell him what she wanted to do, Wang Yanzhou rolled his eyes at her and said, "No."
"I haven't said it yet!"
Wang Yanzhou said: "You don't know how to light a fire, your food is unpalatable, and your laundry is slow and not clean enough."
"...If you weren't the boss, I would have bitten you." Look at you, fanning yourself in the middle of autumn. I haven't even gotten enough of you for being so pretentious, but you're getting enough of me. You're saying I can't wash clothes clean. Have you ever washed clothes? Do you know how hard it is to get a piece of clothing clean?
Just when Tang Chen made up his mind to cling tightly to Wang Yanzhou's tree and settle down in Qingliang Valley, Yue Sheng seemed to be planning something unspeakable in the secret room of Huayue Tower.
Yue Sheng sorted out the last document in his hand and sealed it in a box; Hua Ping then walked into the dim secret room with a small box of something unknown.
"Owner, everything is almost ready."
After handing the box containing the letters and documents to Huaping, Yue Sheng instructed again, "Find someone to quietly deliver this to the General's residence as quickly as possible. Of course, as usual, leave some clues for Yan Shaoqing that roughly point to us."
"……yes."
Life in Qingliang Valley was leisurely and comfortable, yet also filled with uncertainty. Tang Chen's daily tasks were to water the plants, arrange the flowers, and sweep up fallen leaves. Then, he would report to the kitchen on time.
After a few interactions, and with Tang Chen's cheeky personality and his willingness to get along with others, it wasn't long before he got to know most of the people in the mansion, especially those in the kitchen, whose relationships developed rapidly.
Although Wang Yanzhou's time in Qingliang Valley was not as long as the time he spent traveling outside, he basically would not leave Qingliang Valley from the time he last came back to the beginning of next spring unless there was something major.
The originally quiet palace suddenly became noisy due to Tang Chen's arrival. Although Tang Chen was sometimes noisy, everyone seemed to have gradually become accustomed to her noisy presence.
The weather was perfect today, and Wang Yanzhou's appetite was piqued by the rare good weather. Not long after he gave the dinner menu, Tang Chen burst into tears and ran into his study, making a scene.
Wang Yanzhou looked at Tang Chen crying, his eyes narrowed with tears, his mouth wide open with teeth showing, and his face exaggerated, like a little kid whose candy was stolen: "What's wrong with you? Who did you fight with again? Were you pecked by a chicken or chased away by a duck?"
Tang Chen stamped his feet and choked up, "You all bullied me, I don't want to lose face!"
Wang Yanzhou saw Tang Chen's sadness and was afraid he couldn't speak properly, so he asked Lian Qiao. But before Lian Qiao even started talking, she burst out laughing.
This smile made Tang Chen angry again. He was busy wiping the snot and tears from his face while talking: "What are you laughing at? I said it myself!"
The story goes like this: after lunch, as per her daily routine, she went to the kitchen. However, due to her clear sense of self-awareness, after helping wash the dishes, she simply stood by and watched, waiting for the chefs to assign her a task she could do.
Finally, she received the task of the day, which was to go to the lake to collect swan eggs. She refused at first, but after everyone assured her that swans would not chase and attack people like ducks, she went.
Under the protection of everyone, Tang Chen carefully turned over the reeds by the lake and successfully found a nest of goose eggs. Just as she was staring at the swan eggs guarding the nest and trying to get closer to them, another guard swan suddenly appeared from nowhere, flapped its wings, and kicked Tang Chen.
Seeing this, not only did everyone not step forward to help, but they stood by and watched the fun, laughing uncontrollably. In the end, in this battle between man and goose, although Tang Chen was not injured, her fragile heart was broken to the ground.
Facing Tang Chen's accusation full of "blood and tears", Wang Yanzhou finally replied with only three words: "So?"
“…You devil!”
That night, the kitchen sent Tang Chen a dish that included a swan egg. Tang Chen said that even if she starved to death, she would never eat a single swan egg!
After dinner, Wang Yanzhou called Tang Chen over and the first thing he asked her was, "How are the swan eggs? Do they taste good?"
Tang Chen shook her head at first, then nodded gently, "...good, delicious." If she hadn't eaten something this precious before, she really wouldn't want to eat it even if she was beaten to death. After eating it, she finally understood why the toad wanted to eat swan meat every day. If the eggs tasted like this, then the meat must taste heavenly.
Wang Yanzhou smiled and then asked, "I've tasted the swan eggs. Have you found a suitable job in the past month?"
Tang Chen replied thoughtfully, "I think I may need more opportunities to try and experience things."
"I just happen to be short of staff for something here. Would you like to give it a try?"
Wang Yanzhou had been considering this matter for a long time. Zhang Xiaohua had sent Tang Chen here simply because she knew she didn't dislike her, so she asked her to help her and clear out some unnecessary trouble. She had been here for a while and got along well with the people in the mansion. It was about time to take her out for a walk.
"Okay, okay," she agreed with a smile on her face, but in her heart, Tang Chen was secretly complaining about Wang Yanzhou. She had already made up her mind that if he arranged something for her, uh, something that would be unacceptable, she would put cockroaches in his room.
Seeing that she had verbally agreed, Wang Yanzhou did not think it was too much of a stretch, so he simply explained Tang Chen's future work content: "Don't you like watching the fun? I have something to go out for in a few days, so just stay with me and watch the fun."
Tang Chen took a deep breath and asked with a hint of disbelief, "Is it really just as simple as eating a melon?"
"What do you think?"
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