TSBFL Chapter 86.1

TSBFL Chapter 86

Chapter 86.1: 計劃

[Plan]

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When Madam Chen heard these shameless words from Chen Ling Er, her originally expressionless face finally became angry, she took a few deep breaths and tried to calm herself down, looking at her stubborn daughter in front of her, trying to figure out the reason for this.

 

“Tell me, when did he hook up with you, and when did you develop this kind of mind?”

 

Hearing Madam Chen’s interrogation, thinking of Gu Lang’s look that never looked at herself, Chen Ling Er bit her lip with some embarrassment, and directly said: “Our two families were originally fixed. We were originally supposed to marry, but now that (I) married over, is it not just the right thing to do?”

 

Madam Chen looked at her daughter in front of her, she only felt angry and her brain hurt, she rubbed her forehead and tried to reason with her, “Let’s not talk about his poverty, let’s just say that he’s already married now. Does it mean that you, our Chen family’s eldest young lady, will marry him as a concubine and sit at the seat of lower priority, can that be?”

 

Chen Ling Er heard her mother say this, as if stimulated, excitedly retorted: “He has money, he now opens a restaurant that can be profitable, when father crushed his restaurant and let him hand over the formula. I’ll let him repudiate that useless piece of trash and marry me, then he will definitely obey me, be docile and obedient!”

 

Madam Chen was so angry, hearing Chen Ling Er’s words, first stunned, then revealed a surprised look, looking at the front of this self-awareness of the loss of words, shut up the daughter, puzzled and asked: “The restaurant, what restaurant? And how about your father?”

 

Chen Ling Er, just now in rage, under the flustered and exasperated circumstances, her inner thoughts roared out, but wait until she comes back to her senses, she will know that she said the wrong thing, originally her mother did not know. But now she has said it all. Hearing her mother’s questioning, she did not know how to answer yet she could only look at her with an innocent face, trying to pretend that she did not know anything.

 

Madam Chen, however, was not trapped in this set, what her daughter’s like she know best, now put on this posture, must have done something bad or deed that troubles (or weighs on) one’s conscience, so she did not dare to say anything and also want to get by under false pretenses; muddle through; slip away unpunished.

 

Madam Chen slightly narrowed her eyes, looked at her voice cold down, “I am your mother, I will not harm you. I give you a quarter of an hour to think clearly, do you want to tell me or not. If you don’t tell me, then if you get into any trouble in the future, don’t come to me, this mother of yours.”

 

“Mother, don’t say that.” Chen Ling Er was immediately flustered by her threat, and hurriedly told her what she heard that day when she went to look for her father, as well as what she let her maid investigate later, one by one.

 

“According to you, that sickly and invalid child does still have some ability.” Madam Chen sat on the chair, her fingertips lightly tapping on the desktop, making a crisp ‘da da da’ sound.

 

Chen Ling Er wanted to refute Madam Chen, that Gu Lang is not a chronic invalid person, but in the face of her mother’s stern eyes, but still did not dare to say it, can only mutter in a small voice: “Of course. Mother, do you think that bastard son can have this kind of ability? Gu Lang should have been born with bad health, so he couldn’t make those things in order to make a living. But now the Chen family did not send a person over, and even gave his contract of sale to Gu Lang, he naturally has a few less scruples (misgivings), so he dares to bring out those recipes.”

 

Madam Chen listened to Chen Ling Er’s analysis but nodding her head repeatedly, feeling that what she said also has a few points of truth, although this daughter of hers is prone to impulsiveness, but sometimes she have to say that her brain is also flexible enough and to be able to think of these is also considered to be a good thing.

 

“I know already.”

 

Now that she knows the whole story, Madam Chen does not intend to waste any more time here. She got up and stood up, ready to leave this place to go back to her own courtyard. Just before leaving the door, she glanced back at Chen Ling Er who was still staring at her eagerly, and faintly said, “Since you don’t like the clothes, you don’t have to wear them this time. In a few days, mother will make you a new one.”

 

Chen Ling Er did not react to what this meant at first, but when she realized and understood that her mother no longer forcing her to meet Madam Zhao, she immediately widened her eyes and said ecstatically and joyfully towards Madam Chen, “Yes, Mother, I know, then what about the matter of me wanting to marry Gu Lang?”

 

“I have to go back and think about it.” Most importantly, she had to go and investigate if these things her daughter was saying were true.

 

Madam Chen looked at her daughter’s face lit up with pleasure; visibly pleased; beam with happiness, gently knit her eyebrows, and finally left without saying anything. This daughter of hers, after all, or a little less steady.

 

When Madam Chen returned to her own courtyard, the first thing she did was to have her mama (older woman maid) beside her go and invite the deputy housekeeper who had recently been working with Old Master Chen over.

 

While waiting for the housekeeper to come over, Madam Chen re-combined the things that Chen Ling Er had just told her, looked at her new petal nails, and murmured, “I’m a little curious as to how much temptation there is to make you father and daughter think so much about it.”

 

Madam Chen’s words just fell, outside the door came the sound of the little maid’s pass, followed by a man of about thirty years of age slowly walking in, towards Madam Chen saluted and then stood by the side, waiting for orders.

 

Madam Chen looked at the man in front of her, waved her hand, let the left and right waiters go down, leaving only the two trusted older women maids. He raised her head and stared at the butler and said: “Butler Wu, do you know what I have invited you here for this time?”

 

Butler Zhou, however, was very respectful to Madam Chen. He shook his head when he heard her question and she said bluntly, “I don’t know.”

 

Madam Chen smiled gently, this smile made her young face which was at most considered to be a beautiful face add a few more points of flavor, only to hear her say in a meaningful way: “Since Butler Wu doesn’t know, then I’ll come and tell you. I’ve heard that you’ve been investigating something for Old Master recently.”

 

Butler Wu was still muttering in his heart just now, wondering if it was the servant in the inner courtyard who had committed a crime that the madam knew about, and the madam wanted him to deal with it. Who would have thought that this lady does not ask for it and ask this kind of question, suddenly cold sweat is about to come down.

 

Madam Chen looked at Butler Wu’s eyes wandering away from the look, she was also not in a hurry, leisurely playing with the tea cups on the table, said faintly: “Butler Wu, you have to think about it, whether to tell me the truth or not. What the old master can give you, I can also give you and what the old master can’t give you, I can also give you. You also have to remember how the last housekeeper left, it was just too much of an unauthorized decision maker, not listening to the master’s orders.”

 

Hearing Madame Chen’s words, that Butler Wu’s heart just tightened, and finally after he weighed for half a day or opened his mouth, “Old Grandpa asked me to investigate the Chen Family Resto, and also asked me to send people to keep an eye on their earnings, and finally sum up the news to him.”

 

Madam Chen’s eyes narrowed slightly and she immediately sat up straight. Of course she is aware of that Chen family’s small restaurant, but nowadays, in this city, probably no one does not know that restaurant but she knows that, yet she never went there. Or today, Chen Ling Er made such a mistake, she learnt that the famous small restaurant is actually opened by a family that has gone down in the world and she has been looking down on the concubine’s son.

 

 

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