"Xiaoya, why are you always following me today?"

In the Hong Mansion, Hong Dingfeng looked back at his little sister and asked.

"Oh~ I was discovered by my eldest brother. In fact, Fengxiang Shop has received a new batch of silk and satin today. It's really beautiful."

After hearing this, Hong Dingfeng smiled and replied: "Why, dad doesn't allow you to buy it?"

"Hey, eldest brother is still smart."

"You, there are so many silks and satins in the warehouse, and you insist on buying them outside, no wonder dad doesn't agree."

"This is a new arrival. We don't have it at home."

Hong Dingfeng shook his head helplessly and said: "If you need money, go to your second brother. I'm not rich either."

"Okay~" After a long sound, Hong Yaxuan turned and left.

"This girl is too realistic..." Seeing Hong Yaxuan's decisive departure, Hong Dingfeng couldn't help but roll his eyes.

When Hong Dingfeng walked away, Hong Yaxuan patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

'I didn't expect to be discovered by my eldest brother so soon. Fortunately, I'm smart.'

After the discussion yesterday, Jiang Beiran's only task for Hong Yaxuan was to ask her to go home and see if there was anything different about her home that was different from before, and not to miss any details.

Naturally, Hong Yaxuan started with the eldest brother who knew the most about the family. But after following her all morning, she could not see anything different about her eldest brother. Even the sad expression that had appeared before had disappeared.

'Has the trouble caused by the Liu family been resolved?'

Feeling that things would not be that simple, Hong Yaxuan thought hard and decided to observe her second brother again.

At Youshi, as agreed, Hong Yaxuan came to the pavilion.

"Did you find anything?" Jiang Beiran, who was sitting in the pavilion, raised his head and asked Hong Yaxuan.

"I...I found out that my second brother went out to eat secretly behind my sister-in-law's back again!"

Jiang Beiran let out a long breath after hearing this, "What else?"

"This is very serious! My sister-in-law is so virtuous, but he still..."

Halfway through her words, Hong Yaxuan looked at Jiang Beiran's increasingly fierce eyes and had no choice but to slowly close her mouth and lower her head.

"I'm not interested in your housework, let's talk about business."

"Oh... I followed my two brothers for a day, but I really didn't find anything. They are the same as usual."

"Alas, it seems that I still overestimated you." After Jiang Beiran finished speaking, he looked at Luo Wenzhou who was standing aside and said, "Go and call Cheng Yi."

"yes."

Luo Wenzhou responded and walked out of the pavilion.

Not long after, Gu Qinghuan was taken to the pavilion, raised his hands towards Jiang Beiran and shouted: "Brother."

Hong Yaxuan had met Boss Song several times at home and knew that even her father would greet Boss Song with a smile and treat him as a distinguished guest.

At this time, Boss Song... was just like what Butler Zhang looked like when he saw his father at home.

'Who is this person...' Hong Yaxuan couldn't help but steal another glance at Jiang Beiran.

After explaining the matter to Gu Qinghuan in detail, Jiang Beiran looked at Hong Yaxuan and said, "I will ask Cheng Yi to go to your mansion tomorrow. What you have to do is to find an empty space to stay. Do you understand?"

"Staying in an empty space without anyone? What do you mean?" Hong Yaxuan asked strangely.

Without answering Hong Yaxuan, Jiang Beiran looked at Gu Qinghuan and said, "Do you understand the plan?"

"I understand." Gu Qinghuan nodded.

'Ah? Plan, what plan?'

Hong Yaxuan looked confused. She had been listening just now, but she didn't hear any plans at all.

"Well, go ahead and teach her what to do on the way."

"Yes." He cupped his hands towards Jiangbei, and Lu Qinghuan left the pavilion with Hong Yaxuan, who was still in a state of confusion.

After Gu Qinghuan walked away, Jiang Beiran looked at Luo Wenzhou on the side and said, "You should also go to Liu's house to check and see if there is anything unusual."

"Yes." Luo Wenzhou raised his hands towards Jiang Beiran and walked out of the pavilion.

Sitting back at the stone table again, Jiang Beiran picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

Jiang Beiran's eyes widened as he placed two black stones that he found out from nowhere on the chessboard.

'The Liu family, which relies on the royal family, and the Hong family, which relies on the Sifang Sect, what kind of waves can these two forces cause...'

Then Jiang Beiran kept dropping several black stones on the chessboard.

"When I came to Lanzhou for the first time, I was involved in the center of power. If I want to break the situation without any injuries, I'm afraid I have to be more careful."

As he spoke, Jiang Beiran picked up another white piece.

"Fortunately, I have enough chess pieces, and I... am also very good at playing slow chess."

With a "click" sound, Jiang Beiran dropped the white piece away from the box.

At noon the next day, Hong Yaxuan, who had just finished lunch, stood beside a rockery in the yard. No one came here on weekdays, which was in line with the requirements of Brother Lin Linyu.

‘Who is he, and why did he come to Jiyuan Town? I don’t want to ask him for help, right?’

Just when Hong Yaxuan was thinking about something, she suddenly felt a tap on her back.

Hong Yaxuan instinctively wanted to scream, but remembering Boss Song's explanation yesterday, she quickly covered her mouth.

Turning around, she saw Boss Song, wearing a long gown, appearing in front of her out of thin air.

"Song...Boss Song, where did you come in from?"

Yesterday, when Hong Yaxuan heard that Brother Lin Yu wanted Boss Song to come to their house, Hong Yaxuan thought it was a very formal visit, but later after chatting with Boss Song, she realized that he did not intend to go through the front door.

However, although she was mentally prepared, Hong Yaxuan was still a little frightened when Boss Song suddenly appeared in front of her.

Lu Qinghuan suddenly appeared in front of Hong Yaxuan, naturally because he was wearing Minran. Since Jiang Beiran thought that Minran's style was too single was a drawback, he made Minran into various kinds of luggage. After all, Minran's

The core is the formation, not the appearance.

After Hong Yaxuan's mood stabilized a little, Gu Qinghuan asked: "Miss Hong, I wonder if your house is extravagant and wasteful in daily expenses?"

'Extravage?'

Although Hong Yaxuan didn't understand why Boss Song suddenly asked such a question, she still answered seriously: "No... My father often teaches us brothers and sisters not to waste carelessly, and he is also a frugal person himself."

"What about daily meals? Is there any waste?"

"Meal?"

Hong Yaxuan frowned and thought for a moment, "I didn't pay attention to this." After saying that, she raised her finger as if she suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, Cui Rong must know, I will go find her."

Soon, Hong Yaxuan dragged Qin Cuirong over.

"Hello, Mr. Song." Qin Cuirong saluted politely when she saw Gu Qinghuan.

Lu Qinghuan returned the salute and said, "It's troublesome."

On the way, Qin Cuirong had already heard from her young lady what she was looking for this time, so she answered after thinking for a moment.

"I sometimes go with Guixiang... Oh, Guixiang is the maid in charge of buying groceries in the house. When I went shopping with her, she told me that the rule in the house is to eat the freshest vegetables, and

Master doesn’t allow waste, so I usually buy as much as I can eat.”

After hearing this, Gu Qinghuan nodded lightly twice and said, "Thank you very much."

Seeing that Boss Song did not take the initiative to say why he asked about this matter, Hong Yaxuan couldn't help but asked: "I wonder why Boss Song asked about this matter?"

Gu Qinghuan pursed his lips and smiled and replied: "When you were having lunch today, I went to the east kitchen to take a look and found that there were a lot of leftovers left in the kitchen, which was quite a waste."

"Huh?" Hong Yaxuan felt a little strange after hearing this.

Before Hong Yaxuan could ask again, Gu Qinghuan looked at Qin Cuirong and said, "Miss Cuirong, right? I have one more thing I want to trouble you with."

"Please tell me." Qin Cuirong immediately bent down and saluted.

"Do you usually help in the kitchen?"

"Yes, I go occasionally." Qin Cuirong nodded.

"In that case, you just need to be more natural and ask some questions for me..."

At Shen Shi, Guixiang, who was carrying a vegetable basket back to the East Kitchen, shouted: "General Cai, there are chrysanthemums for sale at the market entrance today. I bought some more and brought them back. You can eat them cold."

When Ledong, who was picking vegetables, heard this, he immediately stood up and said: "This is a rare thing. I haven't seen you buy it for a long time. Why did it suddenly appear today?"

Because there is no refrigerator, seasonal wild vegetables such as chrysanthemum can usually only be eaten in that month, and it has to be from a wealthy family.

Putting down the vegetable basket, Guixiang said as if he was taking credit: "Jia Bo went into the mountains to dig out a lot of things."

"Hey, he went into the mountains? He is very brave. There are a lot of wild beasts in the mountains recently. I heard that there are also strange beasts."

"No, but thanks to his courage, we are also lucky."

While the two were talking, Qin Cuirong ran over and saw the chrysanthemum in the vegetable basket and immediately shouted: "Ah! There are wild vegetables to eat today."

Guixiang listened and smiled and said: "You still have a good nose, and you will come here whenever there is something delicious."
To be continued...