The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

"Don't worry, my Lord. I will do what I say."

After some polite exchanges, the banquet was set up. While everyone was eating, Hong Jiutong kept crying in her boudoir, "Miss, please stop crying. We haven't figured out what happened yet."

"How else do I need to figure it out? I'm going to marry the young master of the Wan family in the future."

The maidservant was so anxious that she was spinning around in circles. "This is all deliberately concealed by the master and the mistress from the young lady. How old is this underage young master? What if she still wets the bed? Isn't the young lady's best years wasted by the young master of the Wan family?"

After hearing this, Hong Jiutong cried even harder.

At this time, Cheng Youning in the prefect's mansion sneezed twice. Boss Qian said, "Go play for a while. That's all for today's abacus lesson."

"Thank you, uncle."

Cheng Youning picked up his white jade abacus and ran out of Boss Qian's study to look for Wan Baiqian. "Aunt, what delicious food smells so good?"

Wan Baiqian smiled and said, "You have a good nose. This is the ginseng soup your grandmother asked someone to cook for you. Drink a bowl first."

Cheng Youning touched his stomach and found that he was indeed hungry. He climbed onto the couch and sat down on the other side of the coffee table. He and Wan Baiqian each drank a bowl of soup.

Wan Baiqian asked Cheng Youning: "How was the abacus today?"

Cheng Youning said, "I could have done it a long time ago, but my uncle asked me to help him with the account book, so he called me here and said he was giving me lessons. But in fact, it was just the same old stuff over and over again, nothing new."

"Oh? You think so?"

Cheng Youning said, "If you don't believe me, ask my uncle if he deliberately made me do the work for him."

Wan Baiqian smiled and said, "Your uncle is not as lazy as you say. It's because he couldn't find a suitable teacher for you at the moment, so he could only do it for you. He can't teach, but he can only use the abacus, so he can only watch you do it."

"If you can't find it, then forget about looking for it. It won't be too late to study after Mr. Huang comes back."

Wan Baiqian said: "Tomorrow and tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows. Don't be lazy. You can skip meals and sleep, but you can't miss a day of reading."

Cheng Youning pouted and said, "It's easy to say, why don't you study every day?"

Wan Baiqian said: "Since when did you learn to talk back?"

Cheng Youning said: "Before, I was too young, and I just followed whatever you said. Now I am older, and I can make my own decisions. I don't want to study all day, I want to go out and play."

Wan Baiqian said: "It's fine if you just say this to me, but if your parents hear it, be careful that they will spank you."

Cheng Youning said: "It would be fine if they spanked me, but I doubt that I am my parents' biological child. They hit me really hard. My wrists and ankles still hurt now."

He was complaining that his father had tied him up too harshly last time.

Wan Baiqian sighed, "Your father really doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. When he comes back, I must talk to him. Your little arms and legs can't stand being tied up like that. It's really ridiculous. Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise he would cry so hard that he couldn't find the tune."

When Cheng Youning heard that his father was going to be attacked, his mouth was almost grinning, "Aunt, you have to beat my father, beat him hard, so that he will never dare to deal with me again."

Wan Baiqian smiled and said, "You hit me hard. You don't even dare to hit me lightly. I'll just use my mouth. If I hit your father, your grandmother will dare to hit me."

Cheng Youning glanced at Wan Baiqian's not-so-obvious belly and said, "Aunt, it's really not appropriate to take action at this time. We should take a long-term view on this matter. It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Let's wait until you give birth to your little sister."

"Why are you so sure that there will be a little sister in my aunt's belly?"

Cheng Youning said: "Little brother is fine, he can still play with me in the future."

The bowl of soup was soon finished, Cheng Youning jumped off the wooden couch and said, "I'm going to look for my brother."

Then Cheng Youning ran away.

A few days later, Cheng Feng came to call Shang Xi excitedly, "Shang Xi, look who's here?"

Shang Xi turned around and took a look, then strode forward and said excitedly, "Fifth Brother, Fifth Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

"Cheng Feng sent me a message, asking me to bring your sister-in-law here to find you."

Shang Xi pulled the fifth sister-in-law and said, "Please sit down. You must have had a hard time on this journey."

The fifth sister-in-law smiled and said, "It's OK. After receiving the letter, we set off after settling the family. We didn't dare to delay for a moment."

"How many days have you been on the road?"

The fifth brother said, "This road is really difficult to walk on. It took us twenty days to get here."

Cheng Feng laughed, "Fifth Brother, you guys are really fast. Many people can't get here in a month. The weather here is unpredictable. Fortunately, it's not the rainy season. If it was the rainy season, we would have to stop and go along the way. By the way, Fifth Brother, was the journey peaceful?"

The fifth brother said, "It was peaceful. There were only bandits on the section from Chaizhou to Fengying. They let your sister-in-law and I pass after we paid the toll. They didn't make things difficult for us, nor did they rob us."

I guess this group of bandits should be Li Laoer's group.

Shang Xi quickly called a servant over and said, "Ask the dining hall to prepare food to welcome Brother Five and Sister-in-law."

"It's the young lady."

The fifth brother said, "Why bother? We are not hungry. We brought plenty of dry food with us. We can eat when we are hungry and drink when we are thirsty. This is the first time for us to go out. Everything we see is new to us. It is a feast for the eyes."

Shang Xi said: "There are nothing but mountains and trees along the way. We must have suffered a lot on the way. I don't want to walk this road again after walking it once. I don't know why Cheng Feng bothered the fifth brother and his wife."

The fifth brother said, "That's right. Our noodle shop is making a lot of money. I really don't feel comfortable handing it over to someone else."

Cheng Feng said, "I have some shops in Fengying, and I plan to use them to do some small business after repairing them. I am too busy to handle it myself, and I can't think of a suitable person to help me. After thinking about it, I think the fifth brother is the one I trust the most, so I wrote a letter to urge the fifth brother to come."

The fifth brother said, "If that's the case, your sister-in-law and I can be anywhere, we'll all be working in your house anyway. Thank you two for not looking down on us all these years. When we went to your noodle shop, your sister-in-law and I couldn't even afford to eat in the village, and it was you two who were so kind that you gave us a meal. Your sister-in-law and I have benefited a lot from you all these years, but you haven't been in Beicheng for the past two years, so we've had fewer opportunities to meet, and your sister-in-law and I haven't had the chance to thank you even if we want to."

Cheng Feng said, "Fifth Brother, what you said is not right. You are the benefactor of Shang Xi and me. I can still remember vividly the time when you accompanied me to the Wan family to look for the child. Shang Xi said at that time that you are our lifelong benefactor and the eldest brother of Shang Xi and me. Although we have seen less in the past two years, Shang Xi and I will never forget Fifth Brother's kindness."