TSBFL Chapter 85
Chapter 85.4: 決定
[Decision]
Da Niu obviously knew that this matter was not done well and a bit of grievance appeared on his face, so he could only say, “I also have no choice ah! The housekeeper said that there was something wrong with my goods, picking and choosing from the east and the west, saying that my goods were not good and only giving me this amount of money. If I don’t agree, he will act like I won’t accept your goods next time. Although I feel aggrieved, I can’t do anything about it ah! If I don’t bring them here and take them to the market, they will be sold for a day and not much money will be earned. Who will take care of Jiu Niang if we waste so much time?”
The old man heard his son’s explanation, obviously also thought of the problem, their family’s trouble is there, can only be taken advantage of. But this is not the way to go on, they have wasted a lot of effort to catch these prey. Every time they catch the skin is not broken much, the good stuff can not be sold every time as second-rate goods ah!
Immediately, the old man thought of today’s trade with that young master, that young master not only be generous, but also look at the restaurant as a good business, their hunted animals will have customer. His eyes lit up, looking at the worried son in front of him, he gritted his teeth and said:
“Don’t panic, these are not your fault. In the future, this Chen family’s business, we don’t do it, also fine! In the future, we will sell all the things that we have hunted fot Gong Zi, and we will give a fairer price. I think that young Gong Zi is also willing to accept it. Moreover, that ‘Gong Zi’ will also take those mountain mushrooms so we can earn a little more money.”
Hearing his father say this, Da Niu’s eyes immediately lit up and he immediately said, “Hey, Dad, you’re right, I’ll listen to you.”
The two fathers and sons agreed on the matter of who to sell it to, and took the money they got from selling the prey and hurriedly rushed to the pharmacy, ready to buy the medicine and then go home.
What they don’t know, the steward of Chen Mansion, after Da Niu left, looked at the prey he brought with him and smiled with satisfaction, and then instructed the servants beside him, “Carry these things to the kitchen, at night the madam is going to invite guests, so let them all be careful to do it, these are all good things, if the things they make still disappoint Madam, they know the consequences. ”
“Yes.” After the servants answered, they and several other servants carried the chickens and rabbits to the kitchen.
The steward looked at the way they did their job, nodded his head in satisfaction, and leisurely carried his hands behind his back, ready to go to the madam’s place to repeat his orders. On the way there, he was still calculating that with the money he saved this time, he would be able to order a pretty girl from the Overflowing Fragrance Garden (Yi Xiang Yuan) at the end of the month.
An hour later, Madam Chen sent away the steward who came to reply, and asked towards the big maid serving beside her, “How is it over there, Miss? Have the clothes been sent over?”
The eldest maid slightly lowered her head, saluted and replied, “The clothes were sent over before noon.”
Madam Chen nodded, thought for a moment, still a little uneasy, stood up and directly said: “Go, let’s go to Young Miss’s place to take a look, I always feel not at ease.”
“Yes.”
Inside Chen Ling Er’s room,
Chen Ling Er was currently sitting in front of the table in her daily clothes, her eyes glaring at the clothes her mother had sent her, the expression on her face was so gloomy that it was frightening.
“Young miss, madam is here!” Just when Chen Ling Er was staring at the clothes, and the maids beside her were afraid that she would take the scissors and cut it off, a little maid’s transmitting sound came from outside.
Chen Ling Er’s eyes lifted, she didn’t say a word, nor did she move.
Madam Chen lifted her foot and stepped into the room, and when she saw Chen Ling Er sitting there, she immediately knew what had happened. She waved her hand, let the maids that followed her, as well as the maids that serve Chen Ling Er in this room all go down, and then walked to the opposite side of Chen Ling Er and looked at her from above.
After a while, or Chen Ling Er could not stand it anymore, first defeated, she raised her eyes to look at her mother in front of her, weakly shouted, “Mother.”
Madam Chen raised her eyebrows, revealing a look of surprise, and slowly said, “I thought you didn’t have me as your mother in your eyes?”
Chen Ling Er pursed her lips, knowing that she could not offend her mother now, so she pulled her hand, acting as a spoiled child then she said: “Mother, how could I not have you in my eyes as a mother? Whatever I do, I do not dare to do anything disrespectful to you ah!”
Madam Chen, however, poked her forehead and said in a displeased tone: “I know that you don’t dare, why don’t you put on the clothes that I asked to be sent to you? Didn’t I tell you before that the young lady of the Zhao family will come over at night and we have to accompany her for dinner?”
Speaking to this point, Chen Ling Er suddenly became strong willed as she stood up violently and said angrily all of a sudden: “I just don’t want to eat with her, that’s why I don’t want to change my clothes! I know that her son is injured and his family wants to give him a wedding, and mother you want me to marry him, but I don’t want ah! I don’t want to marry that cripple, he’s just a toad lusting after a swan’s flesh—aspiring after sth. one is not worthy of!”
“Then what do you want to do?” In the face of the suddenly angry daughter, from beginning to the end, Mrs Chen’s expression was calm throughout, “You can talk to me.”
Faced with such a calm Madam Chen, Chen Ling Er was suddenly shaken. She knew that her mother was like this when she was really angry, she did not say anything, but in her heart, she had a plan on how to deal with it. She took a step back and muttered in a low voice: “I want, I want to marry Gu Lang!”
Hearing Chen Ling Er’s words, Madam Chen thought for a moment, the expression on her face finally changed, frowning gently, looking at her daughter with firm eyes, her tone was full of displeasure, “Gu Lang, you mean that Gu Lang?”
“That’s right, that’s Gu Lang who was originally betrothed to our family.” Now that she has said it, Chen Ling Er is not afraid anymore, she slightly straightened her chest, and said with a tone full of seriousness, “I’ve thought it over, I want to marry him only, I want to marry him!”