jdhmnovel Chapter 171 Makes Perfect Sense
Chapter 171 Makes Perfect Sense
"Hehe." Eleven chuckled, glancing cautiously at Ye Qing'an. Seeing that Ye Qing'an was also looking at him, he puffed out his chest and said, "I'm just... I'm just helping you, Mother, to check things out."
"I just want to see if Xu Yixiu is a good person that my mother can entrust her life to."
Ye Qing'an was both amused and exasperated, but this was indeed something Eleven was capable of doing.
Although her child is only four years old, she is a worrier and wants to worry about everything, especially matters concerning her. She wishes she could do everything herself and arrange everything properly for her.
"So? Have you done your research?"
"Not yet." Eleven smiled, her gaze somewhat evasive. "This concerns Mother's lifelong happiness, how can we be so careless? I plan to observe for a while longer."
Ye Qing'an didn't say anything more after hearing what he said.
Now that she and Yi Moxu are hindering each other, she can rest assured that she will go to see Yi Moxu on November 11th.
"These things? Did Xu Yixiu make them for you?"
Eleven's gaze fell on the small windmill in her hand, and her eyes immediately became much more eager: "Yes, Uncle Xu is very capable; he can make all of these."
"Did he really make it himself?" Ye Qing'an still found it hard to believe.
“Of course, I watched Uncle Xu make all of these myself.” Eleven seemed to know what Ye Qing’an was suspicious of, and continued, “Uncle Xu said that he owed someone a debt, that person was his closest relative, but for various reasons, he was unable to accompany him as he grew up, so he made more little things for him.”
"These are probably just things Uncle Xu used to practice with."
Ye Qing'an frowned. Had he failed someone? A close relative? Someone he couldn't be there to watch him grow up?
Is Yi Moxu referring to Prince Rui? Yi Moxu's younger brother?
That makes sense, though. When Yi Moxu had his accident, Prince Rui was probably only eleven years old.
No wonder Yi Moxu treats Eleven so well.
If Eleven looks like Yi Moxu, then seven or eight out of ten people will also look somewhat like Prince Rui, right?
Therefore, when Yi Moxu sees Eleven, he thinks of Prince Rui and treats Eleven as if he were Prince Rui.
Thinking about it this way, everything that happened before makes perfect sense.
but……
Ye Qing'an glanced at the little windmills, bamboo dragonflies, rattles, and the like, and fell silent.
Prince Rui is too old for him to like these things, right?
"Mommy, look, didn't Uncle Xu do a great job?"
Ye Qing'an nodded: "It's not bad."
Eleven chuckled, "Uncle Xu is so skilled at making these things. If Mom and Uncle Xu are together and have a younger brother or sister, Uncle Xu can make these little toys for them. They'll be so happy..."
"Huh?" Ye Qing'an was a little confused. Why did Eleven's words change so quickly, suddenly talking about his younger brother and sister?
"What nonsense are you spouting? I wish I had eleven."
Eleven chuckled: "But I want to have younger brothers and sisters."
"Then just keep thinking about it; maybe you'll dream about it tonight."
Ye Qing'an played with Eleven for a while before returning to the main room. Not long after they entered, Granny Wei returned.
"Actually, Sixth Aunt had already taken stock of the dowry before, and she knew what was missing. But today, she took stock again in front of the steward, and all the missing items have been recorded."
"The steward said that tomorrow morning, he will take Sixth Madam and me to each courtyard to check carefully. If anything is in the mansion, we will move it all over to Miss first. Finally, we will take stock of anything that is still missing, and then send someone to ask about the market price, and then compensate accordingly."
Ye Qing'an nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
Granny Wei looked quite pleased: "It's not hard work at all, what's so hard about it?"
Granny Wei made no attempt to hide the smile on her face: "Back in the manor, we were bullied so miserably by Liu Xueying. At that time, I thought that if one day I could ride on Liu Xueying's head and slap her twice, how wonderful that would be."
"I am so happy today, especially when I was in the Second Miss's room earlier. Liu Xueying's face at that time, oh my, I can't think about it, I can't think about it. I can't help but laugh when I think about it."
"I reckon I'll be laughing in my sleep tonight."
Ye Qing'an didn't seem to feel much: "This is nothing..."
“What Liu Xueying did before is not enough. Those dowries and that money originally belonged to me, and she should have paid them back.”
"We haven't settled the other scores with her yet."
In the future, she will settle accounts one by one, slowly.
Granny Wei glanced at Ye Qing'an, who remained calm, and the smile on her face gradually faded.
For some reason, ever since she returned to the Ye family mansion, although she was by the young lady's side every day, she seemed to have never truly seen through her.
I don't know what happened in the past few years, but the young lady has turned into this.
It's hard to say whether this change is good or bad.
Her previous choices were either a gesture of goodwill or a bad one.
Granny Wei glanced at Ye Qing'an discreetly, then stood aside with her head bowed.
The next morning, the steward and the sixth concubine, along with Granny Wei, went to search the mansion.
Ye Qing'an walked out of the courtyard and went to the back garden.
Servants could be seen coming and going in the garden, all talking about the day's events.
"Do you know what happened? Why are they suddenly searching the mansion? And with such a large-scale operation?"
"I don't know. From what I saw, the people following Sixth Aunt and the steward seemed to be from the eldest young lady's courtyard."
"Young Miss? Are you looking for something? Did you lose something?"
"The young lady came back from the estate. When she returned, she only had two people and a set of clothes with her. What could she have lost?"
Ye Qing'an listened silently in the pavilion behind the artificial hill.
Soon after, news came through.
"I heard that the madam misappropriated the original madam's dowry. The eldest young lady and the master discovered it, and the master ordered the steward to lead people to search from courtyard to courtyard. What they are looking for is the original madam's dowry."
"Ah? Madam Yuan's dowry?"
"Yes. I heard that yesterday the second young lady was sick, and the eldest young lady went to visit her. She immediately recognized that many of the things in the second young lady's room were her mother's dowry that she had brought into the mansion. The eldest young lady got angry at the time and even said that she would report to the authorities to arrest the madam and the second young lady for the crime of misappropriating the dowry."
"OMG……"
Ye Qing'an curled the corners of her lips. Hearing what she wanted to hear, and seeing Granny Wei walking over from a distance, she knew that the matter of searching the mansion must have come to a conclusion, so she stood up.
The murmurs outside, however, did not cease...