“I heard them say that you were in a lot of pain, why did you just drink some hot water? Is it possible that you have met some quack? Tell me where the doctor saw you, I’ll go and ask.”
Cui Qiao’s face turned white instantly as she listened with fear and trepidation. She had signed a death contract and knew that if she was found out, she would have no choice but to die.
“You look so white, you must not be well yet, Qing’er, help her to the back.”
Qing’er answered and came forward and forcefully helped the person towards the back of the house.
Cui Qiao’s legs were weak, but she held herself together and did not struggle.
Xiao Yao sat on a chair and watched Qing’er help Cui Qiao over, her cold gaze falling on Cui Qiao.
Cui Qiao was bought into the house two years ago, she was a capable person and didn’t talk much, so she knew her well enough to pick her over when they were picking people over. But she had never thought that she would do something contrary to her master.
“Kneel down!”
Qing’er let go of Cui Qiao and scolded.
Cui Qiao’s legs went weak and she knelt down in front of Xiao Yao. She didn’t have any fluke in mind, knowing that she had been discovered, her head thumped on the ground, “Miss spare my life, Miss spare my life!”
“Why did you do that?”
Xiao Yao held back her anger and asked word by word.
Cui Qiao didn’t say anything, she just kowtowed one after another and begged for forgiveness, “It was slave servant who was wrong, please also spare slave servant this time, slave servant will never dare to do it again.”
Song Wan Yue walked in and sat down on a chair. Cui Qiao’s forehead was broken, but she did not say who was behind the attack.
“Give you a chance to say who is behind you, don’t force my hand, you should know my methods, otherwise ……” Song Wangyue took her stance and spoke out viciously!
Cui Qiao was so scared that her body trembled and blurted out, “It’s my brother.”
Song Wangyue narrowed her eyes.
“He threatened to throw my parents out on the street if I didn’t steal the formula, my parents are already old and in poor health, if they were thrown out on the street, they would just die, I had no choice before I went to give him the formula.”
Cui Qiao was in tears.
Ever since she had given the recipe to her elder brother, she had not slept a single day and was in a state of panic every day. Her fear deepened when she learned that a pastry shop had opened in a neighbouring street, selling the exact same pastries as theirs.
“What did you just go out for?”
“To see my big brother, who asked me to give him the recipe for all these pastries.”
Xiao Yao was so shocked that she stood up.
Song Wan Yue gave her a reassuring look and Xiao Yao slowly sat back down again, her lips pursed, this was all her mistake, she should have found out a long time ago.
“Did you give it to him?”
Cui Qiao’s voice shook, “No, no.”
“He didn’t give you a hard time?”
“He, he said that if I didn’t give him the recipe at this time on Sunday, he, he would throw my parents out into the street.”
“Give it to him.”
Cuiciao looked up incredulously.
Xiao Yao also looked at her in shock.
Song Wan Yue looked at Cui Qiao, “For the sake of your filial piety, as long as you do as I say, I can let the matter of leaking the recipe go.”
Cui Qiao cried with joy and kowtowed heavily, “Slave servant will do as I say, slave servant will do as I say.”
……
“What are you doing?”
Uncle Xu came out of the house at the sound of his voice and walked up to Song Si with a smile, “Sir Song, old slave has been ordered by Miss Sun to re-clean up the mansion for you.”
Song Si had just left the court, still wearing his official robes, revealing a few moments of majesty, looking at the subordinates coming and going in the courtyard, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled.
He had agreed with the Duke of Ding a long time ago that the wedding should be kept simple, he had already spent a lot of the family’s silver, and the marriage could not be more extravagant.
Looking at his expression, he knew that he was not happy, but Uncle Xu still said with a smile, “Miss Sun is over at the pastry shop, she said that if you are not happy when you come back, let you go over to her.”
Song Si turned and walked out, not taking a few steps before he saw Song Wan Yue coming over, he stopped and waited for the person to approach.
Song Wangyue also saw him and quickened her pace, “Big brother.”
After shouting, she saw Uncle Xu standing at the door giving her a wink, so she knew that Song Si was disapproving.
Without waiting for Song Si to say anything, she said, “It was my idea to repack the mansion, now your sister and I are famous, if big brother marries in a shabby mansion, I will be laughed at by the world.”
Song Si was made to cry and laugh by her words, and raised her hand to stroke her head, “If big brother really made a big show of it, he would also be laughed at by the world.”
“They dare!”
Song Wan Yue’s chin was lifted with a flourish, “Big brother is a minister of the Household Ministry, and he’s married to the first granddaughter of the State Duke’s family, so it’s only right to make a big show of it.”
Song Si couldn’t help but flick her on the head, “Since you still remembered that big brother is the Minister of Household Affairs, then it’s even less appropriate to make a big show of it.”
“Big brother is wrong, it’s because you’re the Minister of Household Affairs that you should make a big show of it.”
Song Si curled his fingers to flick her again, and Song Wan Yue covered her forehead and took a step back, “What I said is correct. The world knows that our family’s business is very profitable, but they don’t know how profitable it really is. Let’s take the opportunity of your wedding to show them, so that even if someone wants to bribe you with gold or silver in the future, they will have to think twice about it.”
Song Si’s raised hand fell back, he understood what his little sister meant, she was thinking of taking this opportunity to tell all the people that his Song family was not short of silver. Anyone in the Household Ministry might be greedy, but not him, so that it would be impossible for anyone to use this as a reason to frame him in the future. But ……
“Big brother is the talisman of our whole family, if you are well, our family will be safe and sound, if anything happens to you, both your life and business will be saved.”
Song Si knew that, so he had been careful after he entered the Household Ministry to not let anyone have the opportunity to frame him and drag the family down with him.
Seeing his silence, Song Wangyue knew he had taken his words in, and he smiled heatedly as she took a step forward, “If I didn’t have enough money in my hand, I would have wanted to buy you a big mansion.”
She didn’t dare to take out the money given by Gu Yi for fear that Song Si would become suspicious.
Looking at her young face, Song Si felt very uncomfortable. He had thought that he would be able to support the whole family once he became an official, but now even he had to spend the silver that his little sister had earned to get married.
Song Si softened his voice, “Just tidy up a little, don’t move too much.”
“Okay.”
Song Wangyue responded neatly and winked at Uncle Xu, who understood and nodded with a smile, saying, “Mr. Song, the old man said that you should stay at the Xu residence for a few days, so you can come back when this side is cleaned up.”
……
The next day went down.
As soon as she approached, she was dragged over by a man who had been waiting impatiently for a long time and asked in a gruff voice, “Where is the recipe?”
Cuichao pointed to her head.
Only then did a smile appear on the man’s face, and he unapologetically led her to the back door of the pastry shop on the street and knocked on the door panel.