Second Marriage

Chapter 23.1

Translator: tarararawr

Editor: Larkspur

Chapter 23 Part 1

How is Xiao Youning suddenly giving out silver rewards?! And she is even giving it out in small amounts!

What is this idea of “small amounts”? It is enough for five ordinary people to use for half a year!

There are dozens of people in the residence. Is Xiao Youning crazy?

Xiao Anning had a feeling that she had heard wrong, but the pozi had already walked far away. It was like she was using her actions to tell her it was true, ruthlessly slapping her in the face and smashing her previous complacency into pieces.

However, it wasn’t until Xiao Anning was at Old Madam Xiao’s place that she was really going to be suffocated alive.

The steward came to tell Old Madam Xiao that Third Young Miss had contracted a restaurant and asked the restaurant to deliver a banquet feast in the evening and invited all the servants in the residence to eat and drink.

Xiao Anning’s hands were shaking when heard that.

“She must have slapped her own face until it was swollen1 and extravagantly spent all that dowry on her reputation!”

Old Madam Xiao’s granddaughter was muttering to herself. Old Madam Xiao raised her eyes to glance at her and asked the steward, “Has the dowry been sent here?”

“No, Master said that she left it in the yamen’s storeroom for the time being.”

Old Madam Xiao frowned, but said nothing more. She waved for the servant to leave.

When the steward left, the old woman looked discontentedly at her second granddaughter, who was still in shock, and said, “If you have some abilities to play tricks, I will be relieved when you marry. Fool, I don’t want you in my presence. Leave.”

It was troublesome to look at her granddaughter.

She didn’t have to think to know who had the servants congratulate Xiao Youning today. She deserved to be slapped in the face for such a small trick.

This was still a fake slap in the face. If she had a different temper, Old Madam Xiao probably would have gone to tear her mouth.

She had created rumors about the reputation of another young girl, but that girl was still a cousin from the separated branch. Even if they had split up now, weren’t the rumors still bad for the Xiao Family?

Yesterday, her bad reputation was repeatedly spread, and today she brought about such a stupid thing.

As soon as Xiao Anning heard her grandmother, she knew that her grandmother knew her little dirty trick. Ashamed and scared, she ran away with red eyes.

But what she didn’t expect was that Xiao Youning had a follow-up.

In the evening, the banquet dishes were sent to all parts of the residence. Each place was given a few banquet dishes, but her courtyard was quiet and none of it was delivered here.

The servants in the courtyard were about to stick their necks out of the wall to see what was going on, but they just sat and waited. They did not see the banquet dishes come.

Everyone muttered about what was going on, even Xiao Anning didn’t understand.

Xiao Youning knew that she was the instigator and deliberately embarrassed her.

When she was so angry that she wanted to cry again, Yuan Guo came with a group of people wearing aprons, each with food boxes in their hands. They stood outside the courtyard door and shouted, “Sisters, our Young Miss said that you are all to come out to eat and we are not to send any in.”

Xiao Anning heard this and couldn’t stop herself from crying anymore.

This was to give her a taste of her own medicine and make her unhappy.

The servants in her courtyard went to receive the silver reward today, but they did not bring in banquet dishes and called her people out to eat. This was not out of the pureness of Xiao Youning’s heart but to embarrass her.

Now, the servants in the courtyard all understood what was going on. They all looked at each other, but no one dared to move while they listened to the crying.

Yuan Guo was not reluctant in putting everything at the courtyard’s gate.

They were here to deliberately irritate people. If they wanted this courtyard to take the food in and eat, then take it in. However, they were not going to send it in.

Yuan Guo came back to tell her little master about Xiao Anning. “Young Miss, you didn’t get to hear her. She cried so loudly that it even went through the courtyard wall!”

Xiao Youning smiled.

Well, that’s how happy she should be.

She felt better and also cheered up. She began to say to Yuan Guo, “Let’s go out and find a house tomorrow.”

Yuan Guo’s eyes lit up. She was standing to the side and hurried to nod. “That’s how it should be. We have to find some more reliable people. Some of the servants from the branch who had accompanied the Young Miss went to the villa to wait for Young Miss, but some of them were so scared that they just ran away. I don’t think we still have the contract to sell them, and we have raised them for so many years.”

She still had three villas on the outskirts of the capital, but those places were so remote that she didn’t think about living there for a long time.

Where her servants from before had gone was something Yuan Guo had found out in passing when she went out to run errands a moment ago.

“Yes, you should keep your eyes open. The house does not need to be big, three sections will be enough. It will be difficult to take care if it is big, and there are only so many of us. The location still needs to be the eastern part of the city where there are many noblemen and it is safer.”

There were only a few of them, so they still had to choose a safe location.

Yuan Guo kept nodding. After their discussion, they washed up and went to bed so that they could go out to see houses tomorrow.