Chapter 42 Blue Ming

  In his own opinion, those chickens and ducks, even if the Four Joys didn't lay a hand on them, Su Xiaofan and her family wouldn't be able to raise them for many days. Her father had raised chickens and ducks before, but in the end, they all ended up dead, although some things had happened...

  "If it was indeed Fourth Joy who did it, we will compensate you for the silver taels of those chickens and ducks that she poisoned." Suddenly spoke up Su Sanfu, who had been silently standing at the gate.

  "It's clear who did it, and since you're willing to repay the silver, I won't say anything else. We're all relatives, and I don't want to make a big scene out of this. If word gets out, we'll just be laughed at." Su Xiaofan smiled faintly as she looked at Su Sanfu, then turned her head to look at Meng Shi and said: "Third Aunt, let me say this first: if in the future, your Fourth Joy or anyone else from your family does anything that harms our family again, I will definitely ask the village chief to testify and make a big deal out of it."

  Meng's family heard the words and glared at him with a hateful gaze, then replied: "In the future, I will definitely be more strict in my management and such things will not happen again. I will give you ten taels of silver, excluding the compensation for the chickens and ducks, and the rest as compensation. However, you must guarantee that no one else will know about this matter except those present today."

  Others didn't know, but Meng's family was the clearest. Although Siyi was about to reach the age of hairpinning, she still hadn't settled on a husband's family. As for her own family coming to propose marriage, it wasn't that there were none, just because she herself had high self-esteem and completely looked down on those who came to propose, although they had privately advised her several times, but couldn't get through to her.

  If this matter is made public, I'm afraid that from now on, no one will be willing to come and propose marriage again.

  "If she doesn't come to bother me again, I won't go and do something that's of no benefit to me. Let her go." Su Xiao Fan looked at the two family servants who were holding down Su Si Xi.

  Jia Ding hesitated and glanced at Xiao Changfu, seeing him nod, before releasing his hand.

  "Daughter." Su Si got his freedom and rushed into Meng's arms.

  "I'm going back." Su Sanfu turned around with a gloomy face and walked out first.

  Su Si heard this and her body couldn't help but tremble slightly, Father's voice was clearly very angry, after all she had done such a thing.

  Meng patted her back and comforted her in a soft voice: "Don't worry, Mom is here."

  Su Si Xi nodded in relief.

  "This is urgent, I didn't bring any silver with me, I'll send the money over tomorrow." Meng said, then pulled Su Si's hand and walked out, from now on, unless necessary, she would never set foot in this place again.

  "Is it too easy to let her off like this?" Xiao Yimiao raised an eyebrow, looking at the three people's departing backs with displeasure.

  "Ah, never mind, it's better to have fewer things than more. To be honest, we're all relatives, and if we make too much of a fuss, people will talk. Su Xiaofan shrugged helplessly, thinking that in the future, he would have to stay far away from these relatives. Then, he turned to Xiao Changfu and said: "I'm really sorry to have troubled you, Village Chief, and everyone else from the manor, until this late at night. Another day, I'll host a humble wine banquet, please come and join me for a few cups."

  Xiao Changfu's originally serious eyes sparkled with excitement after hearing her words, and he stroked his beard, laughing out loud: "Haha... then I'll just have to obey your orders, this banquet personally prepared by you is really something to look forward to."

  Su Xiaofan smiled slightly and pondered in her heart how to use those ten taels of silver to host a decent banquet.

  And also those bowls, chopsticks, tables and chairs that are necessary for a banquet...

  Seeing her worried face, Xiao Changfu burst out laughing again: "I still remember what you said last time, when coming to your house for dinner, I need to bring my own table, chair, bowl and chopsticks. Don't worry, once the good day is decided, just call Mo back and tell me, I will prepare everything and bring it over."

  "It's fine." Su Xiao Fan smiled relievedly, no need to worry about those words, it should be easy to handle.

  "Well then, we'll take our leave first. You all go to sleep too." Xiao Changfu led the servants away slowly.

  Su Xiaofan stood at the gate, seeing them off in the distance before turning around to hold Xiao Yiming's hand and walking into the house: "Grandma, mother, you go to sleep, it's almost dawn."

  Ye's eyebrows were furrowed and twisted together, standing silently there with a very complex expression.

  "Grandma?" Su Xiaofan walked closer and saw that she was still standing there, so he called out to her again in a soft voice.

  "Good." Only then did Ye Shi heavily drag Jia Shi back to their room.

  Inside the house, Jia looked at Ye who was sitting on the edge of the bed and seemed to have no intention of sleeping, and said softly: "Mother, don't worry too much about this Fourth Joy. He's still young, when he gets married one day, he'll become more sensible."

  Ye's family listened and although they still couldn't completely let go of their worries, they felt much more at ease than before. They nodded slightly and then lay down to sleep.

  Two days later, Su Xiaofan called Xiao Yimeng to the village chief's house early in the morning to inform him, and then found Yu Xiaoxi. The two of them went to the city together to buy vegetables. Since they had to borrow a cart from Su Bing later, they had to call her along. It would be embarrassing for herself to go to that wine building alone to borrow a cart, after all, she had to ask Su Bing to pull it back to the wine building the next day.

  Not far from the Mingyue Building, Su Xiaofan stood in a quiet alley, occasionally poking his head out to see if Yu Xiaoxi and Su Bing had arrived. After waiting for a long time without seeing their figures, he was about to go take a look when he saw them walking over with a pushcart from afar, accompanied by someone he had never seen before.

  "What is this?" As he approached, Su Xiao Fan raised his hand and pointed to the man in black standing beside Su Bing, asking aloud. The man's black shirt, his tall and majestic physique, made him look like a martial arts master from TV, with an unyielding face as if a god of war, without any flaws, and sharp eyes like an eagle staring at himself.

  "It's said that someone from Qing Wang Fu is looking for you," Yu Xiao Xi leaned in close to Su Xiao Fan and whispered in her ear.

  Su Xiaofan slightly furrowed her brow and mentioned the King of Qing, in her mind appeared a pair of deep eyes like an abyss.

  "Are you Miss Su?"

  "Yes." Su Xiao Fan met his gaze fearlessly, as if daring him to see right through her.

  "In the lower courtyard, under the orders of His Highness, I have come to invite Miss Su to go to the temporary palace to take charge of the cooking for the banquet two days later." Lan Ming looked calmly at the woman in front of him, not understanding why His Highness would invite such an ordinary little girl, as it was impossible to tell from her appearance that she possessed extremely high culinary skills.

  Su Xiaofan raised an eyebrow: "Two days later..."

  Lan Meng didn't respond because her expression seemed to be pondering something rather than asking a question.

  Digression

  Recommendation for baby: NP's old article "Husband's Favorite: Spoiled Little Wife"