Chapter 016: Golden Boy and Jade Girl

When we went to Jie's house, the boat didn't take up much water. On the return trip, my uncle and aunt loaded half of the boat with local products, and half of the boat sank.

Yao Niang is much closer to her father. She talked about her experience of fishing shrimps: "My sixth cousin is amazing. He not only taught me how to fish shrimps, but also how to weave grasshoppers. I caught a small pot of lobsters and fried them all into shrimp balls for dinner that day."

"Really? You're so awesome now. Next time daddy goes fishing, will you accompany him?" Yan Yingqi smiled.

Yao Niang was silent. Yan Yingqi looked at his daughter suspiciously: "You don't want to accompany Dad?"

"No, I've never seen Dad fishing." Yao Niang doesn't like playing with adults, so it must be very boring.

These words made Yan Yingqi laugh. Just as he was about to speak, Xie said, "Yingqi, we're here."

The group was riding in a carriage back home. When they passed the City God Temple, Yao Niang said to Yan Yingqi, "Dad, when can you take us to the City God Temple? My mother has a small card that can eat for free."

Yao Niang thought her mother was amazing, but she didn't expect her father to ask, "Could it be that she chose the golden boy and jade girl who sat under Guanyin?"

"Oh, how did you know?" Yao Niang was surprised.

Yan Yingqi looked at Xie and said, "Because I have it too."

Xie didn't expect Yan Yingqi to have it too. Even she exclaimed, "What a coincidence."

Yao Niang held her chin up and looked at the couple: "Wow, the two most beautiful golden boys and girls of the time have grown up to become husband and wife. It's really a marriage made in heaven."

"Hehe, where did this kid learn these words? He's like a goblin." Xie was scolded.

Yan Yingqi, on the other hand, raised his chin and said, "If you can talk, talk more."

"Haha." Yao Niang grinned.

Thanks to the reminder from the nanny beside her, she finally restrained herself.

After Xie came back, she gave a few baskets of fresh lotus roots, water chestnuts, shrimps, crabs, oysters, scallops, and some snacks such as roasted tendon meat, large intestine stuffed with glutinous rice, and peaches that she brought from her mother's home to the first and second wives.

She cooked the remaining preserved radish with barramundi herself, and gave a portion to Old Lady Yu after it was done, because she knew that Old Lady Yu loved to eat preserved radish. These were the freshest seafood and local products, which might not be available even with money. Yao Niang ate them with great relish. She was not used to eating seafood, and she even had a rash on her body the first time she ate it, but she had no problem eating it after a while.

Especially the garlic scallops, Yao Niang could finish a small dish by herself, but Xie Shi stopped her and said, "Don't eat too much. Didn't mother tell you to eat until you are 70% to 80% full? If you eat too much, you will eat more and more in the future."

"Okay." Yao Niang sniffed.

Yan Yingqi looked at Yao Niang and said, "Don't learn from your mother. She is like a chicken pecking at rice. She can even eat half a bowl of rice."

Now that Yan Yingqi's relationship with Jie has been restored, his words have become more and more impolite. Yao Niang, on the other hand, listens to Jie obediently and stops eating more.

Everyone here was enjoying the meal, but there was a problem in the first house. Zhen asked the kitchen to cook the seafood sent by Xie for everyone to eat, but Ying Niang and the newly bought skinny boy Ma An'er both broke out in rashes.

At that time, Xie was taking a nap on the beauty couch, and Yan Yingqi was talking to Zhou Lingguang, neither of them knowing that something had happened next door.

Zhen didn't take such good care of a concubine, but if her own daughter got a rash on her face and left a scar in the future, her life would be ruined.

The maids and servants here all held down Yingniang, fearing that she would grab too hard. Seeing this, Zhen felt distressed and said, "Fourth girl, the doctor will be here soon, just bear with it a little longer."

"Mom, why am I like this? Will I be okay?" Ying Niang was terrified.

Zhen comforted him, "It will be fine, don't worry." Then she sighed, "I told you to eat less of those things. I only asked the kitchen to make a little, how could I know you ate it all."

Yingniang shouted, "Why are the second and third sisters fine after eating it, and even you are fine after eating it, but why am I the only one who has problems?"

"In the future, eat less food given by others." Zhen was a little angry with Xie.

When Xie learned about this, she felt a little guilty and hurried over to visit her. Yan Yingqi knew that Xie was a kind person and was also afraid that something might happen to Yingniang, so he went over with her.

When Zhen saw them coming, she suppressed her sadness and said, "I've called the doctor to see him. He took medicine, but he said he still itches."

"What should we do? If I had known, I should have asked clearly before sending it over. Last time, our Yao Niang also ate seafood and her body itched, but she was fine the second time." Xie felt very distressed when she saw Ying Niang's face and legs.

Zhen asked, "Did Yaoniang live like this?"

"Yes, she got better after taking two doses of medicine. In fact, I often cooked seafood porridge for her when she was little. But after she went to the northwest, she seldom ate seafood. When she came back, she was tired from the long journey and her blood circulation was not smooth. After she ate my seafood porridge, she had problems." Xie said with tears in her eyes.

Zhen didn't expect Xie's tears to come so suddenly. Yan Yingqi said, "Let's see how the medicine works today. If it doesn't work, ask the doctor to come tomorrow."

"This is the only way, sister-in-law. I know you always think about us, but don't give some things to us to avoid wasting them." Zhen was worried.

Xie didn't expect her to say that, so she just cried, "Okay, I get it, this time it's my fault too."

This Xie is a character, she is very patient. If something like this happened to other people, they would definitely not be able to help but try to make corrections, but she really accepted it all. The fact that she accepted it all made Yan Yingqi's eyes filled with even more heartache.

"I'll take my leave now. I'll come to visit you again tomorrow." Xie touched the corner of her eyes with her handkerchief.

Zhen didn't want to see Yan Yingqi and Jie flirting in front of her anymore, so she suppressed her temper and said, "You are the elder, why bother you to come over again and again? Just send someone to check on me."

Xie continued to express concern for a few more words before leaving, and Yan Yingqi comforted Zhen for a few more words before getting up.

When he came out, he saw Aunt Feng looking anxiously, so Yan Yingqi coughed lightly before leaving. Yao Niang happened to hear about this, so she went to the main room and asked Xie: "Mother, does your daughter want to go visit as well?"

"You don't have to go. You just came back today. Rest well." Xie touched her daughter's face.

What about sisters getting along well with each other, brothers being friendly and respectful to each other? As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. How you encounter difficulties and overcome them is the most important thing. Besides, Xie said to Yao Niang, "Let your brother and I go to visit her tomorrow."

Yao Niang was considered smart, but she was still young. Xie explained to her daughter, "Today I went to visit Zhen, and Zhen was angry with you."

"You didn't mean it. Wasn't she fine after eating the abalone I gave her last time? Besides, it was given to the first wife, not to harm Yingniang. How can I blame you?" Yao Niang felt that her mother was really wronged.

Xie said, "She blames me, but I won't make excuses. I'll wait until Yingniang is well again. Yaoniang, remember what your mother told you. Courage is important no matter what you do, but sometimes being able to be patient for a while is not necessarily a bad thing."

Yao Niang didn't expect that this would happen on the first day she came back. She comforted Xie and said, "Mom, it's okay. It's definitely okay."

"Well, I hope so!" Xie said.

Yao Niang suddenly said, "Mother, I heard that it's not just Fourth Sister who has the rash. Aunt An seems to have it too. I don't know if the Madam has hired a doctor for her. If not, why don't you tell the Madam?"

Xie looked at Yao Niang and said, "I don't know anything about this. How did you know?"

Yao Niang scratched her head and said, "I heard it from Ping An. He was originally asking about the Fengshou Konghou, but he said that the fourth girl had a rash over there, so I asked him a question. Then he said that he saw people around Aunt An wandering around there."

Ping'an is Yan Yingqi's servant. His mother is the youngest son of the mistress who is in charge of the main house, so the servants are very well-informed.

Publicly speaking, Zhen would never let Xie go to see a concubine, so Xie only knew that the Fourth Young Lady didn't know anyone else, and now she actually knew it through Yao Niang.

"Okay, I know what to do. It just so happens that I also have something I need her to find out for me." Xie was just trying to confirm whether the person who whispered in Yan Yingqi's ear that Mr. Quan and she had something going on in Dongshan was Zhen, and sure enough, when she felt sleepy, she had a pillow.