IBTSOME Chapter 46 Part 2: Mobilized Forces

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 46 Part 2: Mobilized Forces

 

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With Gao Ran's words, Bu Mama was relieved, she smiled and said: "It’s good that Shizi Consort understand who that person in that courtyard really is. This old body still have something outside, so will not bother Shizi Consort that still recuperate."

 

Gao Ran was finally able to withdraw her hand. Her hand felt so uncomfortable that she almost rubbed it clean on her skirt. But Gao Ran held back, smiling eagerly, and personally sent Bu Mama out.

 

After seeing the person walking away, the smile on Gao Ran's face also retracted little by little. In the end, it became completely cold. Where could see the smile just now. Gao Ran watched for a while, then flung the curtain to return back to the house, calling the maid to change her own clothes.

 

If she guessed correctly, the main courtyard would be lively in a while, how could she be absent from such an important scene. Lin Wei Xi actually dared to touch the relics of her predecessors, then she was finished.

 

Lin Wei Xi sat on a Luohan's bed and wrote very neatly. After a few strokes, she scratched several time-consuming and boring dishes. Gu Hui Yan didn't like to eat fish, but half of the menu in New Year's Eve banquet was freshwater fish, which was too boring. Lin Wei Xi referred to the menu when old Yan Wangfei was still alive, and then tried to recall the dishes that Gu Hui Yan had moved with a chopsticks more during the meal, and stumbled to draw up a new menu.

 

As for the one who relied on the old to sell the old¹, and these estate steward who wanted to take advantage of the new year festival to extort money from their master family, they indeed loved to serve who they want to serve. It was true that Lin Wei Xi didn't put a hundred taels of silver in her eyes, but it didn't mean that others could take her as a fool and tap her for money one by one. When Lin Wei Xi was a Shizi Consort in her previous life, she rectified this practices. Unexpectedly, there was a year of blankness in the middle, and the nerve of these people became fatter again, moreover every opening was a hundred taels. This kind of servant was really difficult to deal with. Lin Wei Xi was now the Wangfei, so she didn’t have to worry about it. After the spring next year, she would let people driven out their whole family, to be a wakeup call for those lawless servants in the mansion.

     

Lin Wei Xi asked someone to spread the paper, and personally copied the revised menu again, and then handed it to the servant, saying: "Take another copy of this list. This year’s New Year’s Eve family dinner will be prepared according to the menu on this list."

 

Wan Yue took the heavy red menu, she tried to endure, but still tactfully mentioned it: "Wangfei, it turns out that the list was left by the former Wangfei. You only entered the door and withdraw the regulations left by the predecessors. Is it not too impatient?"

 

"Otherwise?" Lin Wei Xi asked, "I also want to spend a few years in peace, but those wicked slaves rely on their seniority to use the so-called propriety to squeeze people. If I don't beat them, could it be doing things as they want, not only not investigating their negligence, even gives a hundred taels for them to squander?"

 

Wan Yue was silent. Everyone knew that the new bride when entering the door should not make too many big movement. However, in the situation of Yan Wang Mansion, if you didn’t push yourself forward, it would only let people step on you. How could Miss Lin, who even dare to provoke Wangye, indulged them?

 

Wan Yue said nothing, she gave Lin Wei Xifu a salute and respectfully went down to arrange things. At the end of the year, every household was busy, just preparing the New Year’s Eve banquet and the candles to worship the ancestors was busy enough. And Yan Wang Mansion was still the mansion of imperial family and generals. At the end of the year, it was necessary to pay tribute to other high-ranking officials. This major event concerned the matter of faces, any carelessness was not allowed. So the new years’ banquet menu could not have any mistake, once it was finalized, there was no time to change it.

 

However, Wan Yue only walked out of the door and directly ran into a wave of people. Wan Yue had to stop, step aside, bowed her head to salute the visitor: "Shizi, Shizi Consort."

 

Gu Cheng Yao's expression couldn't be said to be good, he walked straight into the house. Gao Ran glanced at the red list in Wan Yue's hand, pursed her mouth and smiled, chasing after Gu Cheng Yao.

 

Wan Yue silently sighed, and was not in a hurry to send the list to the kitchen and warehouse, trailing behind, slowly walked into the room.

 

Lin Wei Xi heard the noise outside, she snorted in her heart. When someone walked into the house, she was not surprised at all: "Shizi, which wind actually blow you here?"

 

This kind of carelessness but also carried some sarcastic expression. Gu Cheng Yao didn’t have much emotion at first, but when he saw Lin Wei Xi’s look, he felt like a basin of cold water was poured on his face, and his tone became worse: "I heard that mother is going to remove the steward of Daxing estate in southern suburbs?"

 

Yo, it turned out to be for this, Lin Wei Xi thought Gu Cheng Yao was here to question her about Wangfei Shen’s matters. Lin Wei Xi said, "Yes, I remove them. This kind of trivial matter was still passed on to Shizi?" Lin Wei Xi glanced at the people behind Gu Cheng Yao, the people who were being looked at immediately bowed their head. Lin Wei Xi chuckled lightly, didn’t try to hide the sarcasm in her words: "The means of doing things is really numerous."

 

Gu Cheng Yao frowned, and his tone unconsciously became very hard: "Of course, the inner house affair will be arranged by mother, but the estate tenant are ordinary people. Since they have suffered a disaster and the harvest is not good, mother should give them a month or two. How can their family's livelihood be cut off because of a little human error? If it spreads to the outside, wouldn’t people say that Yan Wang Mansion treats the farmers in their estate harshly?"

 

"Treat the farmers in their estate harshly?" Lin Wei Xi threw the writing brush, straightened up, looking at Gu Cheng Yao with scorching eyes and frost on her face, "That's how Shizi thinks of me? Are you just relying on their words to come here and condemn me? "

 

Gu Cheng Yao wanted to say no, he just couldn't bear for Lin Wei Xi to have the reputation for treating farmer family harshly, so he came to remind her, how could it become condemning her? But facing Lin Wei Xi's bright eyes Gu Cheng Yao couldn't speak, and actually became speechless. He gave birth to an unprecedented sense of absurdity and familiarity, it was like he and Gao Xi's conversations in the past that deviated from the original meaning, and become irreversible.

 

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1 Relied on the old to sell the old, it’s a Chinese idiom that means the older person put on the elders attitude, contempt toward others, believe that everyone should showed some humility and understanding of the elderly.^↩

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