Chapter 279: Spring Return (Part 2)
After watching the old woman leave the courtyard, the master and his two servants stared at the gifts for a long time. This time, Xiu Ju was the first to come to their senses.
"Very good!"
She stretched out her orchid finger, picked up a ten-liang gold ingot, held it in her white palm, and said happily: "With these things, Madam won't have to worry about returning home tomorrow!"
"But……"
Jia Yingchun felt a little uneasy. She bit her sexy lower lip, which was neither too thick nor too thin, and asked hesitantly, "Why did the Second Master suddenly send so many things over?"
"Is there anything you don't understand?"
Siqi had figured it out, and said, "What kind of person is the Second Master in our house? No matter how bizarre the case is, it can't stump him, let alone the First Master's tricky mind."
"He must have heard what the old woman said and became suspicious. Then he heard that I was quite angry, so he simply had someone send these things over."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Xiu Ju, holding the gold ingot, also interrupted and said, "I've heard that the Second Master is a very considerate person. He must have guessed the difficulty of the Madam, and out of pity, he sent so many things over."
She said this casually in excitement, but there was some ambiguity in her words, especially the words "considerate" and "heartbroken". How could they be used between a younger brother-in-law and an elder sister-in-law?
Before Jia Yingchun could react, Siqi glared at her and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You've made such a good thing sound so unbearable!"
Xiu Ju also knew that she had said something wrong, and she put the gold ingot back to its place with a shy look. She rolled her eyes and suddenly stuck out her tongue and snickered, "I'm afraid it's not that I said something wrong, but that Sister Siqi is guilty. That day, Sister Siqi came to this mansion alone, and with just a few words she persuaded the Second Master to investigate the case."
"In my opinion, this is a huge investment..."
As he spoke, he pinched Siqi's chest hard, then ran away with a chuckle, saying, "So, when Second Master heard that Sister Siqi was angry, he sent all these things with such distress."
"you……"
Si Qi was caught off guard by her pinching, and after hearing her chaotic chatter, she immediately pounced on her with bared teeth and claws, angrily saying, "You little bitch are getting more and more presumptuous! It's obvious that you're thinking about the Second Master in your heart, but you chose to fall on me!"
The two of them were chasing and playing inside and outside, but they didn't notice that Jia Yingchun was looking at the gifts on the table and seemed a little dazed.
Sometimes she frowned, sometimes she smiled, and I don't know what she was thinking about. In just a moment, two intoxicating blushes appeared on her bright oval face.
“Pah, pah, pah~!”
But soon, she spat at herself several times, suppressing all the inappropriate thoughts in her mind, and then began to put the gift boxes in order.
"Madam, let me do it."
At this time, Siqi came out from the inner room in disheveled clothes. She quickly put the boxes of medicinal herbs into order according to size, and put the one hundred taels of gold away separately.
When she was almost done cleaning up , she looked at the agarwood clock in the corner and saw that it was almost the hour of the night. She called out to Xiu Ju, "Don't dawdle in there anymore. Go and ask the maids to boil some water so that Madam can take a bath and change her clothes after she finishes the rehearsal."
“Here it comes, here it comes!”
Xiu Ju walked out of the inner room while tidying up her messy hair, complaining: "I just pinched her, but Sister Siqi treated me like a walnut and kept pinching me!"
Siqi didn't even look at her. She reached out to untie Jia Yingchun's belt, revealing the thin white lining underneath. While helping her take off her sleeves, she said, "I'm kind enough to help you make it bigger so you don't have to worry all day."
"Bah! You just show off!"
Xiu Ju spat and then went out angrily.
Among these three masters and servants, Siqi needs no mention. Her bust is one of the largest even among women who have breastfed children. Although Jia Yingchun is slightly inferior, she also has a plump and full figure.
Therefore, compared with the two of them, Xiu Ju's standard size seems abnormal.
Not long after, Xiu Ju finished her instructions and hurried back from outside. She locked the door of the main room, and then she flared up her arms like an old hen protecting her chicks, ready to support Jia Yingchun at any time.
The night deepens.
From time to time, Siqi's voice could be heard from the hall: "Spread your legs further, why can't you do this move well?"
"Just think of yourself as riding on something..."
"Yes, yes, yes, please keep your balance..."
"Hold your chest up high, so as not to..."
No words were spoken that night.
But the next morning, the master and his two servants packed up quickly and asked the maid to carry more than half of the medicinal herbs and eighty taels of gold ingots. They hurried to the stable and saw that the carriage had been prepared.
However, the number of carriages exceeded expectations. Siqi had originally instructed to prepare two carriages, one for them and their servants, and the other for the four maids.
However, there were four carriages lined up in a row.
What is going on here?
The master and his servants were puzzled when they saw Ruan Rong leading a few maids and old women, carrying large and small bags, rushing over. She called out from a distance, "Madam, I heard that sister Daiyu was ill a few days ago, and I was looking for an opportunity to go and see her. Today, I heard that Madam would return home early, so I asked the second master to accompany you."
Seeing that the various supplements she brought were actually more than what she had, Jia Yingchun didn't have any thoughts, but Siqi was obviously unhappy.
However, this slight displeasure was hastily concealed when he saw Sun Shaozong's figure.
Now, in her heart, Sun Shaozong is like a god. Naturally, she dare not let Sun Shaozong see her dissatisfaction with Ruan Rong.
However, when Jia Yingchun saw Sun Shaozong, she felt a little flustered. Although as the eldest sister-in-law, she would have to get along with her younger brother-in-law in the future, she still didn't know what to do when she suddenly ran into him.
Seeing this, Ruan Rong hurriedly comforted him, "Master is not at home, and it is not easy to delay the matchmaker's thank-you gift, so Second Master is going to go over today and settle the thank-you gift with the matchmaker."
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called Shi Liu to bring over a large red brocade bag, stuffed it into Si Qi's hand, and said, "This is what the Second Master forgot to send yesterday. Keep it with you and let Madam give it to others."
Siqi opened the bag and took a look, and found that it was half a bag of gold beans, each of which was worth about one or two taels of silver.
The master and his servants felt both comforted and a little awkward. They felt comforted that the Second Master was indeed a caring man who had thought of everything for Jia Yingchun.
As for what was awkward, it was not that the brother-in-law accompanied his sister-in-law to return home, but that Ruan Rong was a foreign woman and a concubine, but she was more domineering in this mansion than Jia Yingchun, the eldest wife.
But it couldn't be Ruan Rong's fault. After all, when she visited the day before, Ruan Rong had mentioned that she would give all the keys to the house to Jia Yingchun.
However, before Jia Yingchun could react, Sun Shaozu rejected the idea, saying that Yingchun needed to focus on her health so that she could continue the family line and she could not spare the time to manage household chores.
Regardless of what he was thinking, after the master, servant, Ruan Rong and others got on the carriage, Sun Shaozong also came over, jumped on the horse, and shouted, "Let's go to Rongguo Mansion!"
