Second Marriage

Translator: tarararawr

Editor: Larkspur

Chapter 22 Part 2

Once again, the magistrate was impressed by Xiao Youning. The girl was amazing and solved the matter perfectly in an instant.

The Li Family just wanted a good name, but their relationship between the Xiao Family could not be mended with silver. The Xiao Family’s Young Miss obviously did not forgive them, but created a difficulty that did not put the Li Family on the spot too much.

After all, they all lived in the capital and their paths would eventually cross again.

Sometimes retreating a step meant the whole world.

Master Li’s expression changed a little. Some acceptable words got stuck in his throat, and he couldn’t get it out. It’s embarrassing to be forced to do a good deed like this.

Moreover, no one saw it coming.

Xiao Youning immediately pointed at the chest of silver and said to the magistrate, “Daren, I will also take this box of silver out and give it to the yamen to use. Thank you for helping us deal with this task during your busy schedule.”

The magistrate thought the little girl was too cute.

This reversal and chest of silver were more useful to him. After all, he was the one who would gain a good public reputation for giving to the poor in the future.

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The magistrate’s smile deepened. He nodded and affectionately asked, “Why don’t you see if these things will be sent back for you, or are you waiting for someone to come?”

Xiao Youning had already made up her mind and replied, “I may have to trouble Daren to keep it for me for a few days. I am staying under another’s roof and don’t want to take up too much of their space.”

Second Master Xiao almost suffocated to death on her.

“Good. This official will wait for you to pick it up.” The magistrate did not think about it anymore, so he slapped his knee and made the people put a seal on the previous seal to reseal the chests on the spot.

In the end, Xiao Youning found a silver banknote under a chest and put it in her clothes. She slowly and calmly left.

Master Li had an indescribable look on his face as he sat in the back hall without moving for a long time.

Just after Xiao Youning left the back hall of the yamen, she saw a familiar figure.

She did not stop, and quickened her pace towards the carriage with a composed face.

But the young man still caught up to her.

“Younger Sister Ning!”

Li Qingzhi quickly ran to her. Without thinking too much of his anxiety, he reached out and pulled her arm.

Xiao Youning was pulled to the point of stumbling and she almost fell. She was so angry that she turned around and slapped Li Qingzhi n the face.

There was a sharp and clear sound in the alley. Li Qingzhi was slapped into shock.

Previously, his elders did not agree with him to ask Xiao Youning back, and his mother sent her servants to look after his courtyard. It was difficult for him to learn that she had come back now, so he had snuck out to tell her that he still loved her.

Her heart actually had not changed, but he was the one to go the wrong way for a while.

As a result, he was greeted with a slap in the face.

Li Qingzhi was stunned on the spot, and when he regained his senses, the carriage from the Xiao Family’s Second Branch had disappeared. It was only the burning pain on his face that told him that he had indeed seen Xiao Youning just now.

Yuan Guo sat in the carriage and thought that the slap couldn’t have come sooner. She held Xiao Youning’s arm and smiled the entire time. She blew on her miss’s hand and asked her if it hurt.

Xiao Youning finally showed a real smile. She leaned against the carriage wall and suddenly said, “It was a pleasure to hit him.”

The Second Master Xiao sitting to the side was rendered speechless for a while.

The return trip was smooth, but as soon as Xiao Youning got out of the carriage, she found that the servants in the residence were more enthusiastic than ever.

Everyone congratulated her from the gate on her return to the courtyard.

Yuan Guo was so confused and she didn’t know what was going on. She was surprised and said, “Young Miss, if I did not go out with you today, I would have thought you were going to get married.”

The entire way the servants were saying “Rejoice”, “Congratulations”, “May joy be with you”… it’s like the Young Miss had married a husband.

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Xiao Youning sat down and poured some tea for herself. She slowly said, “Yuan Guo, you will have to work a little harder. Go out again and exchange the silver to smaller amounts. Then find a restaurant and tell them to set up a banquet with enough seats for a hundred people. I want the best drinks!”

“Huh?” Yuan Guo’s mouth was wide open. “Young Miss, who are you going to invite to the banquet? A hundred people? Where are there so many people?”

“Go and hurry back.”

It was only when Yuan Guo was urged that she left the residence in a hurry.

At the same time, Xiao Anning had heard that Xiao Youning had come back, but none of the servants had been given a reward. Some people in the residence had begun to say that she was not good and her arrangements were all nonsense.

She clicked her tongue. She really is from a fallen family.

After lunch, Xiao Anning went to her grandmother and waited on her to drink medicine.

Old Madam Xiao said she had a headache after she slept late at night. Xiao Anning had paid her respects in the morning, and it was her eldest sister who waited on Old Madam Xiao. It should be her turn in the afternoon.

She was just halfway there when she met a lot of people running to one side.

There was a pozi who was familiar with the people in her courtyard. She saw that the servant girl next to Xiao Anning paused for a moment, and then happily said, “Young Miss’s servants, why haven’t you gone to the Third Young Miss’s courtyard yet? Third Young Miss is giving out reward money. Three taels of silver each!”

The people around Xiao Anning uttered a wow, and Xiao Anning was in a trance. “What are you talking about?” With these words, the delight in her heart just now disappeared without a trace, and her breath got stuck in her throat.