After the heroine was robbed, save the paranoid villain

Xiao Jiashan returned to his house in a daze.

Wei Ruxuan is now in charge of the household finances and discovered that the Fifth Prince’s mansion suffered a serious deficit after the New Year holidays.

In order to make up for these deficits, she reduced the shares of other concubines, and all the previous treatment they should have received was gone.

How could these people be willing? Some of those who were brave enough to come forward were beaten and scolded by Wei Ruxuan.

After Xiao Jiashan came back, he thought about how he had neglected his studies over the years. Not only was he not as good as Xiao Chengji in martial arts, he was also not as good as Xiao Chengji in knowledge.

He immediately went to the study, intending to make up for it intensively, so that he could be reborn in a few months.

Xiao Jiashan took a book to read. He had just turned two pages when several concubines came to him clamoring, saying that Concubine Wei did not allow them to use charcoal fire. Their room was as cold as an ice cellar and they were freezing to death.

Being disturbed by these people, Xiao Jiashan's enthusiasm was dispersed.

He was upset and called Wei Ruxuan over.

Wei Ruxuan said confidently, "Fifth Master, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are until you run the household. They ask the kitchen for food all day long, chicken, duck, fish and meat all the time. We use so much charcoal every day, which costs a lot of money! If we don't cut down on their expenses, how are we going to survive in the future!"

"Nonsense!" Xiao Jiashan was about to be pissed off by Wei Ruxuan, "We are the prince's mansion, can't we afford to support a few concubines? It will be so embarrassing if this gets out!"

He is the fifth prince. If he falls to the point where he makes his concubines suffer, how will people outside evaluate him?

How will he survive in Beijing in the future?

Wei Ruxuan pouted and said, "Don't you think about whether your salary as a prince can support so many people in the mansion? Your farms can't make money, so how can you spend lavishly with so many masters and servants?"

"How come the Prince Qin's Mansion is so well organized?" Xiao Jiashan sneered, "How did the Princess Qin do it? Can't you learn from her?"

Wei Ruxuan's face turned red instantly.

She really didn't expect that at this time, Xiao Jiashan was still thinking about Yan Yu!

"You haven't been to the Prince of Qin's mansion, so how do you know she can do better than me?" Wei Ruxuan was not convinced. "Besides, she has Princess Xianyi to help her. She has work to consult with her about anything she doesn't understand. What do I have? If I were the principal wife, I would be better than her."

Xiao Jiashan sent this group of people away.

He found that the ambitions that had just risen in his heart were now gone after being disturbed by these people.

Xiao Jiashan just felt tired.

He felt uncomfortable whether he was in the palace or in his own house.

There was no place in the world where he could feel at ease.

......

After Xiao Chengji returned, he immediately went to Wanfuyuan where Yan Yu lived.

The sun was out in the morning and it looked like a sunny day, but in the afternoon the sky was covered with a layer of clouds and the cold wind made my bones chill.

He entered the room and saw Yan Yu doing needlework by the window. Xiao Chengji walked over and said, "It's a little dark in the room. Don't do these things. It will hurt your eyes if you look at them for too long."

Yan Yu held it and gestured on him twice: "Wait until spring comes for you to wear it."

Her health is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and she is always prone to illness in winter and spring every year. Now if she doesn't do something while she has time, she's afraid that she will feel unwell and suddenly fall ill in the future.

She took off the cloak that Xiao Chengji was wearing. The thick fur still carried the biting air from outside and felt very cold to the touch.

Yan Yu asked someone to prepare a hot pot, opened a jar of Lihuachun, and asked someone to pour a pot to warm it up.

The waiter soon brought a plate of crystal shrimp balls, various kinds of fresh-cut lamb, beef and venison, as well as seafood such as fish maw, fish lips and scallops. There were also some mountain delicacies such as pheasant, quail and deer meat, followed by tender cabbage hearts, green winter vegetables, different kinds of wood ear mushrooms, and tofu and bean curd skin.

In addition, there are also desserts with various flower fillings such as rose, jasmine, and osmanthus, as well as white fungus and bird's nest, iced yogurt, plum wine fermented glutinous rice and other desserts.

Xiao Chengji seldom ate like this, mainly because it was too troublesome to eat and boil the dishes at the same time. He didn't like too many people serving him, so he simply didn't let the people below him prepare such troublesome things.

Yan Yu had hardly ever eaten hot pot when she was in Lingcheng before. After arriving in the capital, she ate it several times at Princess Xianyi's mansion and remembered it instantly.

The base of the pot is made by slowly simmering chicken soup for an hour, to which golden chrysanthemum, red dates, wolfberry, ginseng and other ingredients are added. Even without adding any other ingredients, this pot of soup alone is extremely delicious.

I have been busy in the cabinet for most of the day, fighting wits and courage with these old guys for such a long time.

If he came back on weekdays, Xiao Chengji would often go to the study to read books and call his staff to discuss some things.

Such a daily routine might be boring and tiring, but he could always endure it.

Now that he had arrived at Yan Yu's place and had taken off the thick cloak he was wearing, Xiao Chengji suddenly felt that all of his worries for the day had disappeared as he was filled with the soft and fragrant scent in the room.

Only in front of Yan Yu could he have a moment of leisure and relaxation.

In fact, she doesn't have to do anything, just looking at her face is enough.

After all, she was so beautiful, a beauty that others could only see a few times in their lifetime, and he could look at her however he wanted once he got home.

Yan Yu ignored him and was still busy asking the maid to place various dishes on the dining table.

Ning Xia smiled and said, "Miss, we have some freshly cut lotus root slices. Would you like to bring a plate over? I remember you like to eat this."

Yan Yu thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Okay, go ahead."

Xiao Chengji said: "There is only the princess here, where did the young lady come from?"

Ning Xia realized that she had made a mistake, so she quickly changed her words and retreated.

Yan Yu glanced at him and said, "They have been calling me that for more than ten years. They are used to it. Don't embarrass them. I just know what it means."

Xiao Chengji snorted coldly: "No."

He must make everyone remember that Yan Yu is his princess, and no other messy titles can be used.

Yan Yu was a little angry: "Why are you so overbearing?"

"This is how I am." Xiao Chengji said confidently, "If you are unhappy, come and do it."

Yan Yu was so angry that she tried to hit him. She had just rushed over, and before her fist hit Xiao Chengji, Xiao Chengji easily grasped her wrist, pressed her into his arms, bent down and kissed her: "You are so clumsy, and you still want to attack me."

Yan Yu realized that he had been tricked and tried to break free from his arms. Xiao Chengji chuckled and said, "Don't move. I'll kiss you. Be good, I'll kiss you."

After Yan Yu was kissed twice by him, her ears turned red: "Stop messing around, it's time to eat."