Xu’s movements to smooth out her clothes also paused as she looked up at Song Wangyue, her lips moving a few times.
Ever since Xu Ling’er’s family of three had been driven out of the Xu family, this was the first time she had heard that name again, and it was from Yue’er’s mouth.
“Something has happened.”
Song Wangyue explained with a smile.
After putting her clothes back on and letting Meng take them off and put them aside after a few people had seen them, she sat down next to Meng and told her about Zheng Fan wanting to forcibly take Xu Ling’er as his concubine.
“Behind Zheng Fan is the Grand Prince, their aim should be the Xu family.”
As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xu family, Meng was naturally perceptive and understood the meaning of Song Wangyue’s words as soon as she heard them. She pursed her lips, seemingly reluctant but still speaking out about the person she had never wanted to mention again in her life, “They are trying to pull in Xu Ling’er’s grandfather, right?”
Xu Ling’er’s grandfather?
Song Wangyue froze slightly before instantly understanding that she was talking about Mr. Big.
She hadn’t really thought about that person, as he had disappeared since Wen Zhong’s death.
She then shook her head again, “I don’t think so, his reputation is ruined, even if he is brought in, he won’t get any benefit, the Grand Prince needs help, he won’t do that kind of useless work.”
Xu kept her lips pursed as she listened, and nodded at her words, “Yue’er is right. ‘
Lady Xu Yan also opened her mouth, but that man was her father-in-law after all, she could not say right or wrong, and swallowed back the words that were on her lips.
“I have already spoken to my maternal great-grandfather and he agrees, Xu Ling’er has been by his old man’s side for so many years after all, the feelings are there, and Li An is also a good person.”
Said Meng, taking Meng’s arm and blinking her pretty eyes towards her, “What’s more, if my mother hadn’t disappeared and married my father, where would you have gotten such a good granddaughter.”
Meng laughed at her words and lifted her finger to give her a gentle nod on the nod, “Ghostly elf.”
Sister Wu smiled and ordered someone to bring over a pen and ink, Meng got up and walked to the table to write a letter, handing it to Song Wangyue and asking about Xiao Yao’s situation.
“It has greatly improved, and in a few days it will be fully recovered.”
Xu went back to look at it daily, and although Meng knew about it, she only put her heart down when she heard it from Song Wan Yue, saying, “A wound that deep will definitely leave a scar, and I’ve had people go to the pharmacy these days for scar-removing medicine, but I haven’t been able to find any.”
Song Wan Yue’s heart moved.
After speaking with Meng for more than half an hour, Song Wan Yue went to the old man’s side.
He ordered Xu Liang to set up a chess board and played a game of chess with great pleasure before asking, “When do you plan to return?”
He had originally wanted to follow Song Si’s family back after his wedding, and return at the end of the waxing moon. Now that things had changed, if Song Si’s family left in the next few days, he would go with them, but if it came to the end of the month, he would not follow them.
“My sister-in-law is doing much better, my grandparents and second uncle and second aunt, they’ve been sitting around for a long time, so I reckon I’ll only stay for another three or five days.”
“Then ……”
The old gentleman wanted to say he was going along.
“I won’t follow back for now.”
The old gentleman swallowed what he was about to say and stroked his beard in a good mood, “So, you’ll accompany Grandfather Granddad for another game?”
One game was played and another was played, and when Xu Yan returned from the palace after giving a lesson to the fourth prince, the two were still playing. When Xu Yan heard that Song Wan Yue had arrived, he came straight to the old man’s side, and seeing that the two were playing chess, he moved a stool himself and sat on the side to watch.
After watching the game for half an hour, Song Wan Yue won the game against the old gentleman without any hesitation. Instead of being annoyed, the old gentleman laughed with joy.
Xu Yan also laughed along with him. If it wasn’t time for lunch, he would have liked to play a game with Yue, even if he lost, he would have been as happy as the old gentleman.
“Have you gone to the Ding Guo Mansion?”
Xu Yan was concerned about this matter.
Song Wan Yue nodded, “I went there yesterday and gave them the recipe.”
Xu Yan put his heart down and told him about the Fourth Prince asking him to ask Song Wan Yue about the recipe, the old man nodded after listening, “You did the right thing, Consort Xiao Xian is carrying the dragon heir, you can’t be sloppy.”
“I also instructed that if they tell Consort Xiao Xian, they should ask the Imperial Doctors first, after all, that recipe is something I read in a book and I haven’t experimented with it for anyone else.”
Song Wan Yue lied without changing her face.
The old gentleman nodded again.
Xu Cotoneaster and the others had also returned from the academy, and when they heard Song Wangyue was there, they all came over too. Seeing them gathered together, talking animatedly, the old gentleman squinted happily as he watched from the side. This was a good day that he had never imagined.
After eating and talking with the old man for a while, Song Wan Yue left the Xu family only after he had taken his lunch break.
“Miss Sun, did you leave something behind?”
Uncle Xu smiled as he walked beside her, sensing her pause, and asked with a smile.
Song Wan Yue’s face did not change, as it had just done, “I forgot to take the clothes my grandmother made for me.”
“Little one will go and get them for you.”
“No need, it’s for New Year’s Eve anyway, I’ll get it when I come over tomorrow.”
“Miss Sun is still coming over tomorrow?”
Uncle Xu’s eyes glowed, every time Miss Sun came over, the house was always bustling, even the old man’s spirits were a few degrees better.
“Mm.”
Song Wangyue got into the carriage and told the coachman to go home.
The coachman raised his whip and hurried the carriage away from the Xu Mansion. Song Wan Yue sat inside the carriage, the curtain lifted by a faintly invisible slit, and saw that the people hidden in the shadows were not staring at her carriage, but looking in the direction of the Xu Mansion.
She wrinkled her eyebrows, and when the carriage drove past a street she told the coachman to stop and instructed him to wait where he was, she quietly went around behind the man, observed him for a quarter of an hour, saw that he kept looking at the Xu residence, returned to the side of the carriage and instructed the coachman.
The coachman quickly drove the carriage to the Capital Mansion.
Sheriff Liu, who had just come to the upper court, was afraid of being scolded by the capital magistrate again, and came out of the capital palace with a few magistrates on the pretext of investigating a case.
A carriage sped over from a distance and stopped in front of them.
The carriage driver jumped off the carriage and spoke concisely, “Sheriff Liu, I am Miss Song’s carriage driver, our girl has discovered that someone is trying to do harm to the Xu Palace, please go over and arrest them.”
Against the Xu Mansion?
Sheriff Liu looked serious, and without a moment’s delay, he led several magistrates over to them.
“That’s the man.”
Song Wangyue pointed at the man standing in the hiding place.
The man was still furtively looking towards the Xu Mansion, dressed in a grey suit and with a tall, thin figure.
Sheriff Liu waved his hand, and several people silently went around behind the man and pounced on him at the same time, pinning him down.